Name a popular song that mentions a holiday aside from Christmas.

[Sequoia]

Okay, I'll start:

"Spooky" (Atlanta Rhythm Section)

If you decide someday to stop this little game that you are playin
I'm gonna tell you all what my heart's been a-dyin to be sayin
Just like a ghost, you've been a-hauntin my dreams
So I'll propose on Halloween
....

[Ron Green]

1. "Saturday in the Park" - Chicago

...I think it was the 4th of July.



edit for tpyo

[livetohike]

2. New Year's Day - U2

Yeah...
All is quiet on New Year's Day
A world in white gets underway
I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes on New Year's Day
On New Year's Day....

[Arugula Latte]

3. Another Halloween one -- "Everyday is Halloween" by Ministry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIMfdlVGmqM

[Kat45]

4. Alice's Restaurant - Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving--and the local radio station would play it every Thanksgiving

This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the
restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant,
that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's
Restaurant.

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant

Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on
Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the
restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the
church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and
Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of
room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room,
seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn't
have to take out their garbage for a long time.

http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/alices.shtml

[Seneca]

5. 'Born on the Bayou' - CCR

"I can remember the 4th of July... running through the backwoods bare..."

[Seneca]

6. "Veteran's Day Poppy" - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

[Seneca]

7. "The Chanukah Song" - Adam Sandler

[Bossy Monkey]

8. "Hallowe'en" -- Dream Syndicate, "4th of July" -- X, "Independence Day" -- Bruce Springsteen

Signed, your delegate from the 80s.:)

[SoxFan]

14. Here's Dave Alvin performing "4th of July"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQO8Njh3oAY

[MissMillie]

9. "I Just Called to Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder

I think it names about all of them

No New Year's Day to celebrate
No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
No first of spring
No song to sing
In fact here's just another ordinary day

No April rain
No flowers bloom
No wedding Saturday within the month of June
But what it is, is something true
Made up of these three words that I must say to you

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

No summer's high
No warm July
No harvest moon to light one tender August night
No autumn breeze
No falling leaves
Not even time for birds to fly to southern skies

No Libra sun
No Halloween
No giving thanks to all the Christmas joy you bring
But what it is, though old so new
To fill your heart like no three words could ever do

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart, of my heart,
Of my heart

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart, of my heart,
Baby of my heart

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/stevie+wonder/#share

[MorningGlow]

10. The Christians and the Pagans - Dar Williams

Amber called her uncle, said "We're up here for the holiday
Jane and I were having Solstice, now we need a place to stay."
And her Christ-loving uncle watched his wife hang Mary on a tree.
He watched his son hang candy canes all made with red dye number three
He told his niece, "It's Christmas Eve, I know our life is not your style."
She said, "Christmas is like Solstice, and we miss you, and it's been awhile."

Okay, it mentions Christmas, but there aren't that many songs out there that mention Solstice! :P

[TommyO]

23. The Christians and the Pagans is a favorite on my iTunes Holiday playlist

It gets played almost as much as "Swiss Colony Beef Log"

[KamaAina]

11. "Don't Let The Light Go Out" -- Peter, Paul and Mary

okay, it doesn't mention Chanukah by name, but the reference to the Maccabee children doesn't leave a whole lot of room for doubt.

[fishwax]

12. Tears of Rage -- The Band (by way of Bob Dylan)

We carried you in our arms
On Independence Day
And now you’d throw us all aside
And put us on our way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxOXEN2Vl0I

[Seneca]

19. I was about to post that!

But I contributed enough, lol.

[smitty]

13. "Almost Indendence Day" by Van Morrison

I always play it on the 4th.

[Beaverhausen]

15. "Fourth of July" - X

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHBaOiQ3J8&feature=related

[yankeepants]

16. My Funny Valentine

[cwydro]

17. Well this is kind of Christmas

but more like New Years...from the title

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NmdFgFyhnk

[femmocrat]

18. "What are You Doing New Year's Eve?" n/t

[WolverineDG]

20. "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" nt

[Love Bug]

21. "Easter Parade" by Irving Berlin

[jobycom]

22. Mardi Gras Mambo--Dr. John. nt

[SCantiGOP]

24. Jingle Bells

Was actually written about Thanksgiving, but has of course become a staple Christmas song.

[geardaddy]

25. Not popular, but a kick ass song.

"It's Halloween" by The Shaggs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75xFyuD-62w

[MrCoffee]

26. Halloween on the Barbary Coast - Flaming Lips

Tragically, I can't find a video, but one of my all time favorite Lips riffs.

[MrCoffee]

27. The Ceiling is Bendin' - Flaming Lips

Man, they wrote a lot of songs about Halloween back when they kicked ass.

[CBHagman]

28. Al Stewart's "Sand in Your Shoes."

On Remembrance Day the bands all played/The bells pealed through the park.

[Yavin4]

29. One Headlight -- WallFlowers

She said it's cold
It feels like Independence Day
And I can't break away from this parade
But there's got to be an opening
Somewhere here in front of me
Through this maze of ugliness and greed
And I seen the sun up ahead
At the county line bridge
Sayin' all there's good and nothingness is dead
We'll run until she's out of breath
She ran until there's nothin' left
She hit the end-it's just her window ledge

[Dystopian]

30. Lake of Fire - Nirvana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quZ5rE8ujcA

Where do bad folks go when they die
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
Go to a lake of fire and fry
See them again 'till the Fourth of July

I knew a lady who came from Duluth
Bitten by a dog with a rabid tooth
She went to her grave just a little too soon
flew away howling on the yellow moon

Where do bad folks go when they die
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
Go to a lake of fire and fry
See them again 'till the Fourth of July

People cry and people moan
Look for a dry place to call their home
Try to find some place to rest their bones
Of an angels and the devils try to make 'em their own

Where do bad folks go when they die
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
Go to a lake of fire and fry
See them again 'till the Fourth of July


peace~