Christmas Carols - I Saw Three Ships
I saw three ships : Lyrics I saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day; I saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas Day in the morning. Well! It seems our un-named narrator has seen...
I saw three ships : Lyrics I saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day; I saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas Day in the morning.
Well! It seems our un-named narrator has seen three ships coming in to port. Not one; not thirty nine but three! What I find more astounding apart from this numerical feat is that they are coming into port on Christmas day, and in the morning at that! I’m surprised the sea men (hehehee…) could be bothered and haven’t taken the day off. I would have.
And what was in those ships all three,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day?
And what was in those ships all three,
On Christmas Day in the morning?
Our unnamed narrator makes a good point here, what is on the ships? I have a few ideas:
- Turkeys
- Christmas Crackers (you know the ones with the plastic toys that aren’t really shaped like anything, have jokes like “Three tomatoes go for a walk and one gets run over and another says ketchup!” and make a faint popping sound when they get snapped)
- Amy Winehouse’s booze and drug shipment
- The celebrities off this years I’m a Celebrity, get me out of here! (ed. one would hope they'd never come back)
- Tony Blair’s integrity (nah that’s not going to happen is it)
- The crew of the Marie Celeste
- Northern Rock’s lost millions
- John Dawin, on his way back from Panama
The Virgin Mary and Christ were there,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
The Virgin Mary and Christ were there,
On Christmas Day in the morning.
Well it’s even more spectacular than I was expecting, it seems Jesus himself and his mother the Virgin Mary. Now this is quite a big deal for any Christians in the area. It’s not everyday the prophet of your religion ships into town and on Christmas the most holy of Christian days. Quite an event to be sure, if a little too good to be true and I can only wonder if these two are imposters, where’s Joseph too? Just because he’s a surrogate father doesn’t mean he isn’t important.
Pray, wither sailed those ships all three, On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day; Pray, wither sailed those ships all three, On Christmas Day in the morning?O they sailed into Bethlehem,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
O they sailed into Bethlehem,
On Christmas Day in the morning.
This song is really starting to get repetitive, as the narrator seems to have a tic that causes him to really hammer home the point that this craaazy sequence of events took place on Christmas day. However, they do pose a good question where was the holy trinity (that’s what I call the Christ family as there are three of them, and yes that includes Joseph too, one at this rate may think I am a fathers for justice supporter, and lets be fair he is the one who started it all). The narrator tells us that the Christ’s sailed into Bethlehem, which seems a bit problematic considering that Bethlehem is nowhere near water! How did they ‘sail’ in exactly? Maybe the ships in question were amphibious landing craft.
And all the bells on earth shall ring, On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day; And all the bells on earth shall ring, On Christmas Day in the morning.And all the Angels in Heaven shall sing,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
And all the Angels in Heaven shall sing,
On Christmas Day in the morning.And all the souls on earth shall sing,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
And all the souls on earth shall sing,
On Christmas Day in the morning.Then let us all rejoice again,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
Then let us all rejoice again,
On Christmas Day in the morning.
There does seem an awful lot of singing and rejoicing which is fair enough although this may get a little bit loud. 
Especially if all the souls on earth sing, which includes the souls of ghosts and other dead organisms (even a paramecium has a soul perceivably). Basically the narrator is claiming that come Christmas day every single living and dead organism that has EVER existed will start to sing. I’m no physicist but I could see a level of sound like that would not only render everyone in existence deaf but would also possibly cause a sound shockwave that would destroy the whole universe and undo all the great work that the Christ’s (after all who made the sandwiches and chairs for Jesus’ big speeches, his mum and dad naturally although maybe he didn’t need it as the loaves and fishes saga shows) have done, in other words it’s really just not worth it.
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