This, with a little help from my good friend Bas Kooman in theNetherlands on guitar, is my Christmas card! The lyrics are below. Happy Christmas everyone, and as the song suggests, be careful what you wish for!

It's gonna to be cathartic
Doing Christmas in the Arctic
If you want a cool Yule
Then grab your cagoul
Walking in a Winter Wonderland

There's no coca-colar
All the teddies are polar
Try cranberry sauce
With a slice of walrus
Eating in a Winter Wonderland

Lately I've been feeling slightly stranded
Information comes by word of mouth
Haven't been on Facebook since I landed
The internet has seriously gone south

Passing time with the Eskimos
Beats queuing in Tescimos
If you lend me your rod
I'll catch you a cod
Fishing in a Winter Wonderland

All I want for Christmas is bionics
Lately I've been lacking vital signs
All my bits are subject to cryonics
The Arctic winter's reached my Calvin Kleins

The countryside, it's bucolic
The locals, alcoholic
I'll be in my igloo
Going down with man flu
Shivering in a Winter Wonderland…

I'm hip to the beat
Tennis racquets on my feet
Dancing in a Winter Wonderland…

Santa smells stale
Since the reindeer are real
Riding in a Winter Wonderland…

When scurvy breaks out
We'll defrost the sprouts
Walking in a Winter Wonderland

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Winter Wonderland(but not as you know it), Dave McKeown with Heb Ik Jou Daar

I am a working full-time musician, teaching, performing, composing, recording and arranging, and my gigs in the last few years have included jazz combo, big band jazz, folk, Irish traditional, rock, soul, latin, klezmer, funk, orchestral, chamber, minimal techno, musical theatre and more, so, safe to say, I’ll have a go at anything. 

I'm a firm believer in demolishing boundaries between genres, cultures, languages and ultimately people, and Soundcloud is a terrific place where all this can happen.