Oi To The World - The Vandals

Of all the Christmas songs which have been recorded, only the best can make it into The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musicians and at number five we have Oi To The World by The Vandals.

For a band from California, The Vandals sound remarkably English or they do right up until they mention drinking bourbon, we have whisky here not bourbon but to be fair they were trying to find a rhyme for turban so we can let that slide.
On the face of it this a song about punks and skinheads beating each other which isn't very Christmassy but it sets the scene for God to come down and shout Oi at them both. It all kicks off on the roof of 20, Oxford Street on Christmas Day when Punk Haji with his sword and Skinhead Trevor with the nun-chucks broke a lot of bones but as Trevor lay bleeding out, Haji saw the north star, come over all Festive and wrapped Trevors injuries in his Turban and then they both went to the pub to drink Bourbon together and God belatedly came down and said Oi! to the world.
The song, sung by an American man doing an English accent about an English man with an Indian name, is from The Vandals album of Christmas songs, also called Oi To The World which, to be even more English than them about it, is shite but this song is the gleaming jewel amongst a big ball of crap.
No Doubt recorded it in a more pop style a few years later where Gwen Stefani started off in an awful English accent, seemed to forget about it in the middle of the song and then remembered again at the end but it's far inferior to the more punk-esque version the Vandals brilliantly gobbed out.