Christmas Motown Pop · 4:12

Christmas at Number Eight

Name: Christmas at Number Eight
Duration: PT252.768S
Channel: Songilingy
Description: Their first Christmas together was oven chips, paper chains and a borrowed board game. Years later, the two best friends still make a date for Number Eight. An original Songilingy example with fictional people and a fictional story.

Their first Christmas together was oven chips, paper chains and a borrowed board game. Years later, the two best friends still make a date for Number Eight.

Christmas at Number Eight

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An original Songilingy example. The people and story are fictional.

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The brief

For my best friend. One Christmas we could not afford to travel home, so we stayed at Number Eight with oven chips, chocolate dessert and paper chains made from takeaway menus. We used coat buttons for a board game. We still do chips and chocolate every December. Bright Christmas soul-pop, clearly about friendship.

They played a borrowed board game with coat buttons and kept their annual invitation long after their front-door numbers changed.

What would you put in yours?

Remember a Christmas you improvised together. What did you eat, what made you laugh, and which part became a tradition?

Number Eight becomes the name for a friendship tradition, wherever the friends live now.

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The first listen

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Lyrics

We couldn't make the journeys home That Christmas in our rented place You said, "I've got a bag of oven chips And something chocolate in the fridge" We cut the takeaway menus Into paper chains for days And you wrote a sign above the cooker Christmas dinner, do not be afraid

You put my name upon a napkin Like I had a reservation

Christmas at Number Eight Oven chips and paper chains We had nowhere else to be And you made room for me Christmas at Number Eight I would take that table any day You can keep the grand occasion I have kept the invitation To Christmas at Number Eight

There were pieces missing from the board game So we played with buttons from your coat You were certain that you knew the rules Till I caught you making up your own I called my mum and said, "We're doing fine" And I found I meant it when I did You were dancing with the oven gloves Making Christmas out of what we had to give

You never asked me to be cheerful You just kept me company

Now we have a little more to spend And different front-door keys But you text me every first December "Chips and chocolate, you and me?" I'll bring scissors, you bring paper We can make the chains again Some traditions start with everything You were there with me

Christmas at Number Eight Oven chips and paper chains Whatever number's on the door That's what Christmas friends are for Christmas at Number Eight I would take that table any day Yes, I've got your invitation And I'm keeping our reservation

Chips and chocolate, you and me Merry Christmas, Number Eight