Tired of Christmas carols? Hangover for lunch and background music? Don't worry, to get you back on track there are also songs for Boxing Day: they are less common, but they are often beautiful and interesting.
The tradition of celebrating December 26 as a tail of Christmas is relatively recent - as writer Bill Bryson recounts in the recent audio book "The secret history of Christmas". And it varies from country to country, like the Christmas celebrations themselves. In Catholic countries it is the feast dedicated to the first martyr of the Church, In Anglo-Saxon countries it is Boxing Day, usually celebrated on this day, the day in which the less fortunate receive the "Christmas boxes" from the better off: the English tradition foresees that it is a day dedicated to watching English league football matches.
There is a song that tells the atmosphere of Boxing Day was recorded by Elvis Costello and the Chieftains in a wonderful Christmas album 24 years ago by the Irish band, "The Bells of Dublin": it is called "St. Stephen's Day Murder".
Source: Rockol.it
