Actually, it's not that easy to find Christmas songs that people can use to learn. Many of them use unusual vocabulary ("Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly"?!) or have references to adult concepts ("I'm all lit up like a Christmas tree" means he's drunk), or are just too hard for non-native kids to understand. I guess that's why "Last Christmas" by Wham! is so popular here - it's not too hard to understand, and the lyrics are not too obviously adult-oriented. That song is not popular at all in the US, though. I had never heard it before I moved to Fujinomiya!
It seems like the Japanese versions of these songs are a lot more kid-oriented. I could be wrong, though.
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