FIRST LINES OF CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONES - 1

Can you name the Christmas number one from the lyrics of the first line? To make it harder name the artist and the year.

LYRICS SONG ARTIST YEAR

“Snow is falling all around me, children playing having MERRY CHRISTMAS 1 SHAKIN’ STEVENS 1985 fun” EVERYONE “Baby if you’ve got to go away, don’t think I can take the 2 pain” STAY ANOTHER DAY EAST 17 1994 “Disco dancing with the lights down low, Beats are SOUND OF THE 3 GIRLS ALOUD 2002 pumping on the stereo” UNDERGROUND CHRISTMAS 4 “C is for the candy trimmed around the Christmas tree” DICKIE VALENTINE 1955 ALPHABET

5 “You say yes, I say no, you say stop and I say go, go,go” HELLO GOODBYE THE BEATLES 1967

6 “You say ‘I love you boy’, but I know you lie” WHEN WE COLLIDE MATT CARDLE 2010

“When we grew up and went to school, there were ANOTHER BRICK IN 7 PINK FLOYD 1979 certain teachers,” THE WALL (PT 2)

“What if I told you, it was meant to be, would you believe A MOMENT LIKE 8 LEONA LEWIS 2006 me, would you agree” THIS 9 “I gave a letter to the postman, he put it in his sack” RETURN TO SENDER ELVIS PRESLEY 1962

10 “Baby’s good to me, you know she’s happy as can be” I FEEL FINE THE BEATLES 1964 “Love is blind as far as the eye can see, deep and 11 meaningless words to me” TOO MUCH SPICE GIRLS 1997

“A ray of hope fickers in the sky, A tiny star lights up way WHEN A CHILD IS 12 JOHNNY MATHIS 1976 up high” BORN 13 “You know where I come from, you know my story” THAT’S MY GOAL SHAYNE WARD 2005

LEWISHAM & “Bridge over troubled water, water, Bridge over troubled A BRIDGE OVER 14 GREENWICH NHS 2015 water, water” YOU CHOIR

“Your love means more to me than all the apples CLIFF RICHARD & 15 I LOVE YOU 1960 hanging on a tree” THE SHADOWS

ALWAYS ON MY 16 “Maybe I didn’t treat you quite as good as I should” PET SHOP BOYS 1987 MIND

“I know I stand in line until you think you have the time SOMETHING ROBBIE WILLIAMS 17 2001 to spend an evening with me” STUPID & NICOLE KIDMAN “The old town looks the same as I step down from the GREEN GREEN 18 TOM JONES 1966 train” GRASS OF HOME “Skies are crying, I am watching, catching tear drops in 19 my hand” SKYSCRAPER SAM BAILEY 2013

20 “The child is a King, the carollers sing” MISTLETOE & WINE CLIFF RICHARD 1988

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