macka b — Features — In the footsteps of an Itinerant Child

“It’s Christmas!” Slade’s opening shout will usually start ringing out in the UK’s shops sometime in November, here is the States I’ve heard Jingle Bell Rock about a million times already – though I will never be able to shake the association with John McClane and ‘terrorists with smaller feet than my sister’.

All rambling aside, the factual roots of Christmas have been long lost in most parts of our society, if we ever knew what it was in the first place, but most of all in our mass media. Music litters itself with clichés and movies seldom refer to anything other than 19th century machinations such as Santa, reindeer, pine trees and child abducting snowmen.

To offer some alternative, here are the wikibombed lyrics to British born reggae artist and activist Macka B’s song for a more ‘conscious’ take on it all.

Christmas has been canceled it's been postponed
No longer celebrated inna we home.
Pagan things we try to leave them alone
Incorporated into Christianity by Rome
We're using our brain we're breaking the chain
We're not playing the Christmas game what a shame (2x)

All the drunkenness and the overeating.
Is it the birth of Christ they're celebrating?
Mostly non Christians are partaking
Fi some it's just an excuse fi money making
They say peace and goodwill to all men
So how come they're putting up the prices then?
Targeting the parents through the children
Well them nah ketch I and I again no way me friend

A long time the 25th of December
has been a special date in the pagans calendar
Long, long before the birth of Christ
It was a day for partying and celebrating and to rejoice
From Nimrod to Saturn to Mithra
These Gods were always honoured on that day in December
Worshiping of sun Gods and idols
Why you think Christmas is never mentioned in the Bible

You see the tree and the ivy and the mistletoe
All of these were pagan things a long time ago
People have them in their house and they don't know what they mean
They just come see them so they just join in
Santa Claus what a fraud never once come a me yard
A me parents have to work, work so hard
Christmas put people under pressures
Don't you see that Santa and Satan have got the same letters

Christmas has been canceled it's been postponed
No longer celebrated inna we home.
Pagan things we try to leave them alone
Incorporated into Christianity by Rome
We're using our brain we're breaking the chain
We're not playing the Christmas game what a shame (2x)