A small green Christmas tree has colourful ornaments, gold stars and an orange ribbon against midnight blue.

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Eric

If every day were Christmas day By some fantastic trick If every day were Christmas day We’d all be bloomin’ SICK.

— Do Not Adjust Your Set • 1967

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Imagine Christmas every single day, and Eric says we'd all end up sick of it. The cheeky rhyme treats endless festivity as too much of a good thing. Even joy, it suggests, needs some ordinary days around it.

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