My family likes Mary’s Boy Child by Boney M, from the early 80s.
It’s really, well, different. Sung in English by Germans with a reggae beat. If I remember correctly, it was the same producers who brought us Milli Vanilli.
“Hark, now hear the angels sing, a King was born today,
And man will live forevermore, because of Christmas Day.
Marys boy child, Jesus Christ, was born on Christmas Day.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7-4GC828rM
Makes me tear up every time.
I thought of that one too.
Thanks.