You’ve decorated the halls, now the tree!

Originally posted December 2016.

Let’s hear Nat King Cole sing O Tannenbaum in German. As far as I can tell his accent is pretty good. It’s from “The Christmas Song”, first released in 1960 as “The Magic of Christmas.”

The song didn’t start out as a Christmas song when first written in 1824; as the Christmas tree evolved into a tradition in the 19th century, so did this song. It was originally a celebration of “the fir’s evergreen quality as a symbol of constancy and faithfulness.”