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    12 Worst Christmas Songs: No. 2

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    'Please, Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)'
    --John Denver (1975)

    The late Rocky Mountain troubadour sometimes introduced this song as a funny little ditty that took on more serious overtones over time. It's hard to see what could have been funny about a seven-year-old pleading with Daddy not to pass out under the tree. Not when you consider that Denver had two DUI arrests before his death in 1997.

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    mpgat 11-25-2008

    Whomever on the spinner staff posted this comment I hope santa leaves you a huge boulder under your Christmas tree. What are you accomplishments? O yeah pathetic comments about people who are no longer here to defend themselves. A lot of people have addictions but to write something as sick and immoral as the one you posted is unforgivable. No inappropriate comments how about inappropriate posting about someone who is dead?

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    elteescatat 11-30-2008

    Dear Spinner Staff: for your information, back when this song was done no one worried about being "politically correct" so it was okay to be funny about ANYTHING back then. Before you judge something by today's standards, maybe you should try taking something in context onece in a while. Then your "worst" list here wouldn't be so STUPID

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    ghsongat 11-30-2008

    so where is the drugged out holier than anything john lennon pontification in this list....i mean hearing yoko's tail on fire cat screech should be played at all atheist rallies as an incredible recruiting tool.

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    fortgary41at 11-30-2008

    I can't believe that he would sing a xmas song like this ever! What made him do such a silly thing ,hmmmm?

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    BiG RiCeat 12-01-2008

    R.I.P of John Denver.. Please dont bad about him I know it's suck but I feel bad .. I like him ... some other nice songs. I almost forget about him... that 's very sad .....

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    Ryan T.at 12-04-2008

    I agree that this should be on this list!!! The holidays are for three things...Reflecting on one's faith, reflecting on what you are truly thankful for, and for getting straight up HOSED...which reminds me ***yells to wife*** "pass the eggnog hun!!!!!"

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    Joeat 12-13-2008

    O K I get it- "rocky mountain high" is cool every other day but Christmas - denver was a hypocritical punk- even his passing cant change that (God rest his soul and help his family)

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    homey XDat 12-25-2008

    wow he is terrible that so ugh my ears are bleeding

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    mauiangel73at 12-25-2008

    OMG, please daddy don't get drunk this christmas? what a hill billy song. thats so gay...

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    Jbo is coolat 12-25-2008

    Paul McCartney is amazing. He shouldnt be on here

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    amstarrbat 12-25-2008

    John Denvers death had Nothing to do with being drunk idiots!!!

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    werunamukat 1-26-2009

    I was the kid in the song. You must have experienced that moment as a kid to have anything to say. True song. It is like he was looking in the window of my home life when he wrote it. Good song. But it brings back bad memories. I won't let it wreck my Christmas's.

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    Johnny LaRueat 12-08-2007

    Daddy....please don't fly drunk.....not on Christmas Eve....

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    Susiat 11-30-2008

    Wow - that's just wrong. Wrong, I tell you. Funny as hell, but wrong....

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    David Milesat 12-08-2007

    What on earth made the usually good John Denver do this rubbish. An attempt to send up English Victorian
    morality tales?
    Sub standard though it is, I've heard more than 12 christmas songs far worse than this

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    Sparkyat 12-08-2007

    WHY DID HE HAVE TO DO A DRUNK SONG? sheeeesh

    AND..

    I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THE "12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS" SUNG BY...(WHO KNOWS WHO SHE IS?) ABOUT GETTING "BOOZE GIFTS" DIDN'T MAKE THE #1 ALL TIME LOUSY IRRESPONSIBLE SONG "EVER". I'M SICK OF EVPLAINING TO KIDS THAT SHE IS PRETENDING..AND THEY WANT TO KNOW "WHY" NICE HUH??

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    michalat 12-09-2007

    Who In the "public" eye Hasn't had a d.u.i.----probably a shorter list---in defence of John Denver----It was LONG b-4 all the "hoopla" about d & d or Drugs -N- Driving Am i right---NOT yhat i condone "it" ~D~eacon>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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    michalat 12-08-2007

    how Many Celebs---DO NOT have 2 + D.U.I.'s,Bet it is a short list!!! In Defence of a great entertainer--"IT" was long b-4 Madd! andb other needed social reforms--Give His Memory a break..O.K.!? ~D~eacon

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    B-Finnat 12-08-2007

    Yeah, some songs should Definately (emphasis on definately) Be put on this dumb old list. I love the classics and I hate it when New people totally butcher it with there own "Style"


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    B-Finnat 12-08-2007

    Hey, what the heck is up with the #2 song? IDK if i've ever even heard that song before?

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