Xmas 2017 - Shortened Version TOTP2

MARK RADCLIFFE: God rest ye, merry gentle people

and welcome to a non-denominational carol service

with seasonal songs from the humanist hymnbook of pop.

And lo, let there be light with The Darkness.

Looks like Nessa from Gavin And Stacey on drums

but I could be wrong.

# Feigning joy and surprise

# At the gifts we despise

# Over mulled wine

# With you

# On the twenty-fifth day

# Of the twelfth month

# The sleigh bells are in time

# Ringing true

# How we cling each Noel

# To that snowflake's hope in hell

# That it won't end

# Don't let the bells end

# Christmas time

# Just let them ring in peace

# Well, the weather is cruel

# And the season of Yule

# Lifts the heart

# But it still hurts

# So that's why I pray each and every Christmas day

# That it won't end

# Don't let the bells end

# Christmas time

# Just let them ring in peace

# Christmas time

# Don't let the bells end

# Christmas time

# Don't let the bells end

# Curse underneath the mistletoe leaves when you're not here

# You went away upon Boxing Day

# Now how the hell am I gonna make it into the New Year?

# Christmas time

# Don't let the bells end

# Christmas time

# Don't let the bells end

# Christmas time

# Don't let the bells end

# Christmas time, just let them ring in peace... #

And there was our first children's choir of the night.

OK, no show without punch and here's Lord Nod of Holdershire and Co.

Don the drummer's turn with the top hat here but, in return,

Noddy gets the band's only shirt.

Huzzah!

# Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall?

# It's the time that every Santa has a ball

# Does he ride a red-nosed reindeer?

# Does it ton-up on his sleigh?

# Do the fairies keep him sober for a day?

# So here it is, merry Christmas

# Everybody's having fun

# Look to the future now

# It's only just begun

# Are you waiting for the family to arrive?

# Are you sure you've got the room to spare inside?

# Does your granny always tell you

# That the old songs are the best?

# Then she's up and rock 'n' rolling with the rest

# So here it is, merry Christmas

# Everybody's having fun

# Look to the future now

# It's only just begun

# What will your daddy do

# When he sees your momma kissing Santa Claus?

# Aaah ah aaah aahh

# Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall?

# Are you hoping that the snow will start to fall?

# Do you ride on down the hillside

# In a buggy you have made?

# When you land upon your head

# Then you've been slayed

# So here it is, merry Christmas

# Everybody's having fun

# Look to the future now

# It's only just begun

# So here it is, merry Christmas

# Everybody's having fun

# Look to the future now

# It's only just begun

# So here it is, merry Christmas

# Everybody's having fun

# It's Christmas!

# Look to the future now

# It's only just begun. #

So now we're well and truly in the party mood,

but this is the stuff of nightmares.

The only Christmas number one to feature Nosferatu the Vampire.

There he is on the left. Pass the garlic.

# Ba da da da

# Ba da da da

# Looking from a window above

# It's like a story of love

# Can you hear me?

# Came back only yesterday

# Moving further away

# Want you near me

# All I needed was the love you gave

# All I needed for another day

# All I ever knew

# Only you

# Sometimes when I think of your name

# And it's only a game

# And I need you

# Listening to the words that you say

# Getting harder to stay

# When I see you

# All I needed was the love you gave

# All I needed for another day

# All I ever knew

# Only you

# Ba da ba da

# Ba da da da

# Ba da da da

# Ba da da da

# Ba da da da

# Ba da

# Ba da

# All I needed was the love you gave

# All I needed for another day

# All I ever knew

# Only you

# This is gonna take a long time

# And I wonder what's mine

# Can't take no more

# Wonder if you'll understand

# It's just the touch of your hand

# Behind a closed door

# All I needed was the love you gave

# All I needed for another day

# All I ever knew

# Only you. #

It's OK, kids, they've gone, you can come out now.

Classic Ronettes homage next.

Dressing room redecorated? Check.

Basket of puppies? Check.

She doesn't do stairs, remember?

OK, Ms Carey. We're ready for you.

# I don't want a lot for Christmas

# There is just one thing I need

# I don't care about the presents

# Underneath the Christmas tree

# I just want you for my own

# More than you could ever know

# Make my wish come true

# All I want

# For Christmas

# Is

# You

# I don't want a lot for Christmas

# There is just one thing I need

# And I

# Don't care about the presents

# Underneath the Christmas tree

# I don't need to hang my stocking

# There upon the fireplace

# Santa Claus won't make me happy

# With a toy on Christmas Day

# I just want you for my own

# More than you could ever know

# Make my wish come true

# All I want

# For Christmas is you

# You, baby

# I won't ask for much this Christmas

# I won't even wish for snow

# And I

# I just wanna keep on waiting

# Underneath the mistletoe

# I won't make a list and send it

# To the North Pole for Saint Nick

# I won't even stay awake

# To hear those magic reindeer click

# Cos I just want you here tonight

# Holding on to me so tight

# What more can I do?

# Oh, baby

# All I want for Christmas

# Is you

# You, baby

# All the lights are shining

# So brightly everywhere

# And the sound of children's

# Laughter fills the air

# And everyone is singing

# I hear those sleigh bells ringing

# Santa won't you bring me

# The one I really need?

# Won't you please bring my baby to me?

# I don't want a lot for Christmas

# This is all I'm asking for

# I just wanna see my baby

# Standing right outside my door

# I just want you for my own

# More than you could ever know

# Make my wish come true

# Baby, all I want

# For Christmas is you. #

Peter Kay and the Two Ronnies on backing vocals there.

2 Unlimited next.

Now, have I got enough foil for the turkey?

# Techno, techno, techno

# Let me hear you say yeah!

# No, no

# No, no, no, no

# No, no, no, no

# No, no, there's no limit!

# No, no

# No, no, no, no

# No, no, no, no

# No, no, there's no limit!

# No, no limits, we'll reach for the sky!

# No valley too deep

# No mountain too high

# No, no limits, won't give up the fight

# We do what we want and we do it with pride

# Let me hear you say yeah!

# No, no, no, no, no

# No, no, no

# Techno, techno, techno

# No, no, no, no

# No, no, no

# Come on, techno, techno, techno

# No, no, no, no, no, no

# No, no, no, no

# No, no, there's no limit

# No, no, no, no, no, no

# No, no, no, no

# No, no, there's no limit

# No, no limits, we'll reach for the sky!

# No valley too deep, no mountain too high... #

2 Unlimited with a contubernium

of oven-ready gladiators for no good reason.

But, hey, it's Christmas.

Panto time now and over we go to the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe,

where, in something of a coup for their production of Aladdin,

Boy George has agreed to play Widow Twanky.

But first, as Buttons presumably, Paul Young.

# It's Christmas time

# There's no need to be afraid

# At Christmas time

# We let in light and we banish shade

# And in our world of plenty

# We can spread a smile of joy

# Throw your arms around the world

# At Christmas time

# But say a prayer

# Pray for the other ones

# At Christmas time it's hard

# But when you're having fun

# There's a world outside your window

# And it's a world of dread and fear

# Where the only water flowing

# Is the bitter sting of tears

# And the Christmas bells that ring there

# Are the clanging chimes of doom

# Well, tonight thank God it's them

# Instead of you

# And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time

# The greatest gift they'll get this year is life

# Oh-oah

# Where nothing ever grows

# No rain or rivers flow

# Do they know

# It's Christmas time at all?

# Here's to you

# Raise a glass for everyone

# Here's to them

# Underneath that burning sun

# Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

# Feed the world

# Feed the world

# Feed the world... #

Later in his career, you see,

and so Dave Hill of Slade could afford his own top hat.

Now, direct from a nearby garden centre, it's Coldplay and Chris

has done his back in and is having trouble standing up straight.

So that explains that, but why he's wearing toddler's shoes,

I really can't say.

# Turn your magic on, Umi, she'd say

# Everything you want's a dream away

# We are legends, every day

# That's what she told me

# And I feel my heart beating

# I feel my heart beneath my skin

# Oh, yeah, I feel my heart beating

# Cos you make me feel

# Like I'm alive again

# Alive again

# Oh, you make me feel

# Like I'm alive again

# Said I can't go on, not in this way

# I'm a dream, I die by light of day

# Gonna hold up half the sky and say

# Only I own me

# And I feel my heart beating

# I feel my heart beneath my skin

# Oh, I can feel my heart beating

# Cos you make me feel

# Like I'm alive again

# Alive again

# Oh, you make me feel

# Like I'm alive again

# Turn your magic on, Umi, she'd say

# Everything you want's a dream away

# Under this pressure, under this weight

# We are diamonds taking shape

# We are diamonds taking shape

# Woo hoo, woo hoo

# Woo hoo, woo hoo

# If we've only got this life

# This adventure, oh, then, I

# If we've only got this life

# You'll get me through, oh

# If we've only got this life

# And this adventure, oh, then, I

# Wanna share it with you

# With you, with you

# Sing it, oh, say, yeah!

-# Oh, woo hoo

-Woo hoo

-# Woo hoo

-Woo hoo

-# Woo hoo

-Woo hoo

-# Woo hoo

-Woo hoo

-# Woo hoo

-Woo hoo

-# Woo hoo

-Woo hoo... #

Good effort with the hat, Chris.

Shame it was the wrong size, eh?

OK, children's choir count two.

Well, it soon will be.

Merry Christmas, Woody.

# When the snowman brings the snow

# Well, he just might like to know

# He's put a great big smile

# On somebody's face

# If you jump into your bed

# Quickly cover up your head

# Don't you lock the doors

# You know that sweet Santa Claus is on the way

# Oh, well, I wish it could be Christmas everyday

# When the kids start singing and the band begins to play

# Oh, I wish it could be Christmas everyday

# Let the bells

# Ring out for Christmas

# When we're skating in the park

# If the storm cloud makes it dark

# Then your rosy cheeks are gonna light my merry way

# Now the frosticles appear

# And they've frozen up my ear

# So we'll lie by the fire

# Till the sleet simply knocks 'em all the way

# Well, I wish it could be Christmas everyday

# When the kids start singing and the band begins to play

# Oh, I wish it could be Christmas every day

# So let the bells ring out for Christmas

-# When the snowman brings the snow

-When the snowman brings the snow

-# Well, he just might like to know

-He just might like to know

# He's put a great big smile on somebody's face

-# So if Santa brings that sleigh

-Santa brings that sleigh

-# All along the Milky Way

-Along the Milky Way

# I'll sign my name on the rooftop in the snow

# Then he may decide to stay

# Well, I wish it could be Christmas everyday

# When the kids start singing and the band begins to play

# Oh, I wish it could be Christmas everyday

# So let the bells ring out

# For Christmas

# All right, you lot, take it away!

# Oh, well, I wish it could be Christmas everyday

# When the kids start singing and the band begins to play... #

Does it count as a children's choir if they don't actually sing?

Evidently hastily assembled

from a local primary school

with no time to learn the words.

D'oh!

You're watching Top Of The Pops 2 Christmas 2017 with me,

Mark Radcliffe.

And let's not forget that there are urgent medical procedures

being carried out over the festive period,

but who can blame the operating theatre staff for adopting

a relaxed dress code at this time of year?

# When I die and they lay me to rest

# Gonna go to the place that's best

# When they lay me down to die

# Goin' on up to the spirit in the sky

# Goin' on up to the spirit in the sky

# Spirit in the sky

# That's where I'm gonna go when I die

# When I die

# When I die and they lay me to rest

# I'm gonna go to the place that's the best

# Prepare yourself

# You know it's a must

# Gotta have a friend in Jesus

# So you know that when you die

# He's gonna recommend you

# To the spirit in the sky

# Goin' on up to the spirit in the sky

# That's where you're gonna go when you die

# When you die

# When I die and they lay me to rest

# I'm gonna go to the place that's the best

# Never been a sinner

# I've never sinned

# I've got a friend in Jesus

# So you know that when I die

# He's gonna set me up with

# The spirit in the sky

# Goin' on up with the spirit in the sky

# Spirit in the sky

# That's where I'm gonna go when I die

# When I die and they lay me to rest

# I'm gonna go to the place that's the best

# Goin' on up to the spirit in the sky

# That's where I'm going to go when I die

# When I die

# When I die and they lay me to rest

# I'm going to go to the place that's the best. #

OK, we're off to the Radio 1 Live Lounge now.

It's just through the live kitchen, next to the live dining room.

And, ooh, who's been forced to wear a new jumper by his girlfriend?

# It was Christmas Eve, babe

# In the drunk tank

# An old man said to me,

# "Won't see another one"

# And then he sang a song

# The Rare Old Mountain Dew

# I turned my face away

# And dreamed about you

# Got on a lucky one

# Came in eighteen to one

# I've got a feeling

# This year's for me and you

# So happy Christmas

# I love you, baby

# I can see a better time

# When all our dreams come true

# They've got cars big as bars

# They've got rivers of gold

# But the wind goes right through you

# It's no place for the old

# When you first took my hand

# On a cold Christmas Eve

# You promised me

# Broadway was waiting for me

# You were handsome

# You were pretty, Queen of New York City

# When the band finished playing

# They howled out for more

# Sinatra was swinging

# All the drunks they were singing

# We kissed on a corner

# Then danced through the night

# The boys of the NYPD choir

# Still singing Galway Bay

# And the bells were ringing out

# On Christmas Day

# You're a bum, you're a punk

# You're an old gal on junk

# Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed

# You scumbag, you maggot

# You cheap, lousy blagger

# Merry Christmas, you mug

# I pray God it's our last

# The boys of the NYPD choir

# Still singing Galway Bay

# And the bells were ringing out

# For Christmas Day

# I could have been someone

# Well, so could anyone

# You took my dreams from me

# When I first found you

# I took them with me, babe

# I kept them with my own

# Can't make it all alone

# I've built my dreams around you

# And the boys of the NYPD choir

# Still singing Galway Bay

# And the bells were ringing out

# For Christmas Day

# Jingle bells, jingle bells

# Jingle all the way

# Oh, what fun it is to ride on a one-horse open sleigh, hey

# Jingle bells, jingle bells

# Jingle all the way

# Oh, what fun it is to ride

# On a one-horse open sleigh

# Dashing through the snow on a one-horse open sleigh

# Through the fields we go

# Laughing all the way

# Ah-ha-ha

# Bells on bobtails ring

# Making spirits bright

# What fun it is to ride and sing and sleigh a song tonight

# Jingle bells, jingle bells

# Jingle all the way

# Oh, what fun it is to ride

# On a one-horse open sleigh, hey

# Jingle bells, jingle bells

# Jingle all the way

# Oh, what fun it is to ride on a one-horse open sleigh. #

Ah, lyrical changes to avoid offence, eh, kids

and a jaunty jingle-bell bonus.

Well, if we must.

Now, could there be a more poignant title in this instance than

Last Christmas,

as we lost George Michael last Christmas Day?

We miss you, George. RIP.

# Last Christmas, I gave you my heart

# But the very next day you gave it away

# This year, to save me from tears

# I'll give it to someone special

# Last Christmas, I gave you my heart

# But the very next day you gave it away

# This year, to save me from tears

# I'll give it to someone special

# Once bitten and twice shy

# I keep my distance

# But you still catch my eye

# Tell me, baby

# Do you recognise me?

# Well, it's been a year

# It doesn't surprise me

# Merry Christmas...

# I wrapped it up and sent it

# With a note saying, "I love you"

# I meant it

# Now, I know what a fool I've been

# But if you kissed me now

# I know you'd fool me again

# Last Christmas, I gave you my heart

# But the very next day you gave it away

# This year, to save me from tears

# I'll give it to someone special

# Last Christmas, I gave you my heart

# But the very next day you gave it away

# This year, to save me from tears

# I'll give it to someone special

# A crowded room, friends with tired eyes

# I'm hiding from you and your soul of ice

# My God, I thought you were someone to rely on

# Me? I guess I was a shoulder to cry on

# A face on a lover with a fire in his heart

# A man under cover

# But you tore me apart

# Now, I've found a real love you'll never fool me again

# Last Christmas, I gave you my heart

# But the very next day you gave it away

# This year, to save me from tears

# I'll give it to someone special

# Last Christmas, I gave you my heart

# But the very next day you gave it away

# This year, to save me from tears

# I'll give it to someone special

# A face on a lover with a fire in his heart

# A man under cover

# But you tore him apart

# Maybe next year... #

Very sadly missed this Christmas, George Michael.

Now it's over to the Poco A Poco cabaret nightspot, Morecambe,

where Count Dracula is on stage.

Is this the way to Amarillo?

Well, as we're on the West Coast and Amarillo

is in the Texas Panhandle,

I guess it is, in a way.

# When the day is dawnin'

# On a Texas Sunday mornin'

# How I long to be there

# With Marie who's waitin' for me there

-# Ev'ry lonely city

-Ooh-ooh

# Where I hang my hat

# Ooh-ooh

# Ain't as half as pretty

# As where my baby's at

# Is this the way to Amarillo?

# Ev'ry night I've been huggin' my pillow

# Dreamin' dreams of Amarillo

# And sweet Marie who waits for me

# Show me the way to Amarillo

# I've been weepin' like a willow

# Cryin' over Amarillo

# And sweet Marie who waits for me

# Sha la la la la la la la

# Sha la la la la la la la

# Sha la la la la la la la

# And Marie who waits for me

# There's a church bell ringin'

# Hear the sound of joy that it's singin'

# For the sweet Maria

# And the guy who's comin' to see her

-# Just beyond the highway

-Ooh-ooh

# There's an open plain

# Ooh-ooh

# And it keeps me goin'

# Through the wind and rain

# Is this the way to Amarillo?

# Ev'ry night I've been huggin' my pillow

# Dreamin' dreams of Amarillo

# And sweet Marie who waits for me

# Show me the way to Amarillo

# I've been weepin' like a willow

# Cryin' over Amarillo

# And sweet Marie who waits for me

# Sha la la la la la la la

# Sha la la la la la la la

# Sha la la la la la la la

# And Marie who waits for me

# Sha la la la la la la la

# Sha la la la la la la la

# Sha la la la la la la la

# And Marie who waits for me

# Sha la la la la la la la... #

Some ostentatiously warm clothing

borrowed from their mums here, with East 17. Very dapper.

Especially when twinned with an undersized baseball cap

pinched from an infant sibling, eh, Brian?

# Stay now

# Baby, if you've got to go away

# Don't think

# I could take the pain

# Won't you stay another day?

# Stay now, stay now

# Don't you know

# We've come too far now

# Just to go

# And try to throw it all away

# I've only just begun

# To know you

# All I can say is

# Won't you stay just one more day?

# Stay now, stay now

# Baby, if you've got to go away

# Don't think

# I could take the pain

# Won't you stay another day?

# Stay now, stay now

# Oh, don't leave me alone like this

# Don't you say it's the final kiss

# Won't you stay another day?

# I touch your face while you are sleeping

# And hold your hand

# Don't understand what's going on

# Good times we had

# Return to haunt me

# Though it's for you

# All that I do seems to be wrong

# Stay now, stay now

# Baby, if you've got to go away

# Don't think

# I could take the pain

# Won't you stay another day?

# Oh, don't leave me alone like this

# Don't you say it's the final kiss

# Won't you stay another day?

# Baby, if you've got to go away

# Don't think I could take the pain

# Won't you stay another day?

# Don't you leave me alone like this... #

Lovely ear adornments there, chaps, which reminds me...

Must get some new rings for me shower curtain.

OK, so this year marks

the 50th anniversary of the charity Crisis

and also Ralph McTell's classic song Streets Of London.

And so here he is with a timely new version.

# Have you seen the old man

# In the closed-down market

# Kicking up the papers

# With his worn-out shoes?

# In his eyes you see no pride

# Hand held loosely at his side

# Yesterday's paper

# Telling yesterday's news

# So how can you tell me you're lonely

# And say for you that the sun don't shine?

# Let me take you by the hand and

# Lead you through the streets of London

# I'll show you something to make you change your mind

# Have you seen the old girl

# Who walks the streets of London

# Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags?

# She's no time for talking

# She just keeps right on walking

# Carrying her home

# In two carrier bags

# So how can you tell me you're lonely

# And say for you that the sun don't shine?

# Let me take you by the hand and

# Lead you through the streets of London

# I'll show you something to make you change your mind... #

Ralph McTell, Annie Lennox

and friends with a poignant reworking of a classic.

I've got the Spice Girls on next. In fact, here they are now,

direct from a creditable bronze medal

in the World Standing in a Line and Wiggling Championships.

# Love is blind, as far as the eye can see

# Deep and meaningless, words to me

# Easy lover, I need a friend

# Road to nowhere, twist and turns

# But will this never end?

# Well, my dear, you'll know that he pleases me

# But short-term solution ain't no resolution

# There ain't no release for me

# Too much of something is bad enough

# But something's coming over me to make me wonder

# Too much of nothing

# Is just as tough

# I need to know the way to feel to keep me satisfied

# Unwrap yourself from around my finger

# Hold me too tight or left to linger

# Something fine built to last

# Slipped up there, I guess

# We're running out of time too fast

# Yes, my dear, you know he soothes me

# Moves me

# There's no complication, there's no explanation

# It's just a groove in me

# Too much of something is bad enough

# Bad enough

# But something's coming over me to make me wonder

# Too much of nothing is just as tough

# Just as tough

# I need to know the way to feel to keep me satisfied

# What part of no don't you understand?

# Understand, understand

# I want a man

# Not a boy who thinks he can

# Boy who thinks he can

# Too much of something is bad enough

# But something's coming over me to make me wonder

# Too much of nothing is just as tough

# I need to know the way to feel to keep me satisfied

# Too much of nothing, so why don't we give it a try?

# Too much of something, we're gonna be living a lie

# Too much of nothing, so why don't we give it a try?

# Too much of something, we're gonna be living a lie... #

Scary Spice wasn't staying long, hence she kept her coat on.

# I'm too sexy for my love

# Too sexy for my love, love's going to leave me... #

The shy and retiring Right Said Fred

are here to entertain you now with, on guitar,

Baron Hardup from Cinderella.

No? Me, neither.

# I'm too sexy for my shirt

# Too sexy for my shirt

# So sexy it hurts

# And I'm too sexy for Milan

# Too sexy for Milan

# New York and Japan

# I'm too sexy for your party

# Too sexy for your party

# No way I'm disco dancing

# I'm a model, you know what I mean

# And I do my little turn on the catwalk

# Yeah, on the catwalk

# On the catwalk, yeah

# I do my little turn on the catwalk

# I'm too sexy for my car

# Too sexy for my car

# Too sexy by far

# And I'm too sexy for my hat

# Too sexy for my hat

# What do you think about that?

# I'm a model, you know what I mean

# And I do my little turn on the catwalk

# Yeah, on the catwalk

# On the catwalk, yeah

# I shake my little tush on the catwalk

# Too sexy for my

# Too sexy for my

# Too sexy for my

# I'm a model, you know what I mean

# And I do my little turn on the catwalk

# Yeah, on the catwalk

# On the catwalk

# Yeah, I shake my little tush on the catwalk

# I'm too sexy for my cat

# Too sexy for my cat

# Poor pussy

# Poor pussy cat

# I'm too sexy for my love

# Too sexy for my love

# Love's going to leave me... #

The dandruff-on-a-bald-head look?

Not sure meself.

Meanwhile, at a nearby hairdressing contest,

we're down to the final four in the best mullet category.

# The child is a king

# The carollers sing

# The old is past

# There's a new beginning

# Dreams of Santa

# Dreams of snow

# Fingers numb

# Faces aglow

# It's Christmas time

# Mistletoe and wine

# Children singing Christian rhyme

# With logs on the fire and gifts on the tree

# A time to rejoice in the good that we see

# A time for living

# A time for believing

# A time for trusting

# Not deceiving

# Love and laughter and joy ever after

# Ours for the taking

# Just follow the master

# Christmas time

# Mistletoe and wine

# Children singing Christian rhyme

# With logs on the fire and gifts on the tree

# A time to rejoice in the good that we see

# Silent night

# Holy night

# It's a time for giving

# A time for getting

# A time for forgiving and for forgetting

# Christmas is love

# Christmas is peace

# A time for hating and fighting to cease... #

Have a great Christmas, everybody.

# Christmas time

# Mistletoe and wine

# Children singing Christian rhyme

# With logs on the fire and gifts on the tree

# A time to rejoice in the good that we see

# Christmas time

# Mistletoe and wine

# Children singing Christian rhyme

# With logs on the fire and gifts on the tree

# A time to rejoice in the good we see

# Christmas time

# Mistletoe and wine

# Children singing Christian rhyme

# With logs on the fire and gifts on the tree

# A time to rejoice in the good that we see

# Christmas time

# Mistletoe and wine

# Children singing Christian rhyme

# With logs on the fire

# And gifts on the tree

# A time to rejoice in the good that we see. #

OK, that's more or less it. Have a great Christmas, everyone.

We're certainly in a festive mood here at BBC Four.

There's even a massive party going on in the postroom.

I'm off down there now.

Oi, Skepta, save us an eggnog!

# Man's never been in

# When it's shut down

# That's not me and it's shut down

# Ring, ring, ring and it's shut down

# Fashion Week and it's shut down

# Went to the show sitting in the front row

# In the black tracksuit and it's shut down

# Touch the road and it's shut down

# Boy better know when it's shut down

# Yeah, take time if a man wanna try me, no time

# Usain Bolt when I run up on stage

# I pick up the mic and it's reload time

# Don't know your songs but they know mine

# That's why I got gigs just like Joe Grind

# After the show I be rolling mine

# Don't care about the no smoking sign

# They try to steal my vision

# This ain't a culture, it's my religion

# God knows I don't wanna go prison

# But if a man wanna try me, trust me, listen

# Me and my G's ain't scared of police

# We don't listen to no politician

# Everybody on the same mission

# We don't care about your -ism and -cisms

# Cos it's shut down

# That's not me and it's shut down

# Ring, ring, ring and it's shut down

# Fashion Week and it's shut down

# Went to the show sitting in the front row

# In the black tracksuit and it's shut down

# Touch the road and it's shut down

# Boy better know when it's shut down

# You wanna act like a G for the camera

# You say you're Muslim, you say you're Rasta

# Say you don't eat pork, don't eat liar, you're just a actor

# Blood, you're not on your deen

# And if Selassie saw you he would say

# Blood, take off the red gold and green

# Them man are soft, just like ice cream

# Seen? Start moving correctly

# If you don't wanna upset me, you get me?

# You tryna show me your Fendi?

# I told you before, this don't impress me

# I bet I make you respect me

# See Beyonce working in Wembley

# Roll deep in a blacked-out Bentley

# Pull up outside like, "Wah, gwan sexy"

# Yeah, and it's shut down

# That's not me and it's shut down

# Ring, ring, ring and it's shut down

# Fashion Week and it's shut down

# Went to the show sitting in the front row

# In the black tracksuit and it's shut down

# Touch the road and it's shut down

# Boy better know when it's shut down

# A bunch of young men all dressed in black

# Dancing extremely aggressively on stage

# It made me feel so intimidated and it's just not

# What I expect to see on prime-time TV

# I'm in a different class

# When I get through I'mma bring my dogs

# 2 By 2, man a walk in a arc

# Sittin' at the front, it's like Rosa Parks

# You don't wanna see me get dark

# Upset cos man are way up right now

# And this happened all so fast

# I was in Paris, shut down l'Arc

# New York, shut down Central Park

# Talk about Top Of The Pops, I'm like, "Maxim, where shall I start?"

# Walked in, spat ten 16 bars

# And each and every one of them came from the heart

# None of my lyrics are stolen

# Go on, then, go on, then, that's my slogan

# Wanna know how I did it with no label

# No A-list songs, and I told them

# Blood, I just shut down

# That's not me and it's shut down

# Ring, ring, ring and it's shut down

# Fashion Week and it's shut down

# Went to the show sitting in the front row

# In the black tracksuit and it's shut down

# Touch the road and it's shut down

# Boy better know when it's shut down

# Yeah, I just shut down

# That's not me and it's shut down

# Ring, ring, ring and it's shut down

# Fashion Week and it's shut down

# Went to the show sitting in the front row

# In the black tracksuit and it's shut down

# Touch the road and it's shut down

# Boy better know when it's shut down

# Link up, Daddy. #