A Christmas song —
about your year

Every house plays the same twenty carols in December. Tell us what actually happened this year, and the room hears a song that could only be about your family.

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Your names, your traditions

The tree that never fits, the aunt who carves, the dog under the table — in the actual verses.

Ready the same evening

Nothing to ship and nothing to wait for. The preview lands minutes after you write the brief.

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Listen before you pay

A free minute of the finished song first. If it isn’t right, you close the page and owe nothing.

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Two versions + a lyric card

Two full takes as MP3s, plus a printable lyric sheet with a QR code to slip under the tree.

Hear a real example

A real personalized song, made to order from simple memories just like yours.

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How your Christmas song comes together

Tell us about the year

Who was at the table, what changed since last December, the traditions nobody in the family is allowed to skip.

Read the lyrics

We turn your details into lyrics. Every word is editable before anything is recorded — names, dates, whole lines.

Play it on the day

Free preview in a couple of minutes. Keep it, and you get two full versions to play, send, or print.

Three moments to play it

The song is the same. Where you press play changes what it does to the room.

Christmas Eve

At the table, before dessert

The loudest moment of the year — everyone is in one room and nobody has left yet. A song about that exact table stops the noise better than a toast does, and everyone hears it together rather than one person opening a box.

Christmas morning

Last thing under the tree

After the wrapping paper is gone, one more envelope: a printed lyric card with a QR code. It plays right there, on a phone, in a room that has just run out of things to open.

Early December

Given first, played all month

The underrated option. Hand it over at the start of the season and it becomes the household soundtrack for four weeks — in the car, while decorating, on the drive to the grandparents — instead of a single thirty-second moment.

Why the usual Christmas lines fall flat

On the left — what a generic Christmas song sings. On the right — the kind of detail that only exists in your house.

Generic Christmas
“Snow is falling, hearts are warm”
“Family together on Christmas Day”
“Wishing you joy this holiday season”
Your year
“Third Christmas in the new house, still no handle on the back door”
“Dad carves, Mum re-carves, nobody says a word”
“First one since Grandad — we left his chair where it was”

Nobody cries at the word ‘holiday season’. The chair left where it was does it in one line. We only write from the facts you actually give us — no invented family history.

What to put in your brief

Three or four of these are enough. Specific beats sentimental every time.

  • 📅 What this year held — a move, a job, a baby, a hospital, a graduation
  • 🍽️ The Christmas rituals: who cooks, who is always late, the argument that happens annually
  • 🪑 Who is missing from the table this year, if you want them in the song
  • 🚗 The journey home — the drive, the flight, the train everyone complains about
  • 😄 The family joke that needs no explaining to anyone in the room
  • 🎵 The music this household actually likes — we’ll match the style
Sample brief: “First Christmas with all three grandkids in one house. Mum insists on the same lasagne instead of turkey, which started as a mistake in 2019 and is now law. Dan flew in from Dublin and got stuck overnight in the airport again — third year running.”

For the Secret Santa draw

In the usual $20–30 Secret Santa range, almost everything on the shelf is filler — a mug, a candle, a novelty gadget that gets binned by February. A song costs the same and is the only thing in that price bracket that gets replayed.

One caution for an office draw. Build it from what the whole group shares — the meeting that never ends, the broken coffee machine, the group trip — not from private details about the person. A song that only two people understand goes very quiet in a room of twenty, and a joke that reads as affectionate one-to-one can read as pointed in public. Keep it about the group and it lands.

Same logic for a family white elephant: the safest song is about the household everyone is standing in.

Who’s it for this Christmas?

It doesn’t have to sound like a carol

You choose the style when you create the song. Christmas comes from the story, not from sleigh bells — though you can ask for those too.

Warm acousticPopSoulCountryIndieJazzGospel choirHip-Hop

Want it funny rather than tearful? That’s a funny song. Want the slow one that stops the room? A romantic ballad.

Frequently asked questions

Does it have to sound like a Christmas carol?

No. You pick the style — warm acoustic, pop, soul, country, even hip-hop. Christmas comes from what the song is about: your year, your table, your people. If you do want sleigh bells and a choir, say so in the brief and you’ll get exactly that.

When should I order a Christmas song?

There is nothing to ship, so there is no shipping deadline — a song ordered on December 24th still plays on December 24th. The only honest reason to order earlier is calmer: with a spare evening you can read the lyrics properly and change lines before the song is made.

Can I give it to the whole family at once?

That is the usual way people use it. One song about the household — the kids, the grandparents, the dog, the traditions — played once at the table, then shared as a link so everyone keeps a copy.

Is it a good Secret Santa gift?

It works well in the usual $20–30 Secret Santa range, where most options are filler. One caution for an office draw: build it from jokes the whole group shares, not from private details about the person — a song that only two people understand lands badly in a room of twenty.

Who writes the lyrics? Can I change them?

The lyrics are built from the memories you type in, and before the song is created you can edit every word — names, details, whole lines.

How do I actually hand it over on Christmas Day?

Whatever fits the moment: play it from your phone, send a link to a surprise page, hand over the MP3, or print the lyric card with a QR code and put it under the tree — all of that is included.

How much does it cost?

The preview is free and needs no card. The full package is $24.99: two versions of the song, unlimited MP3 downloads, and a lyric sheet.

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Give them the one gift that gets replayed

The candle burns out in January. The song about the chair you left where it was doesn’t.

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