Curious, George: Baby, It's Hot Outside So it's unseasonably balmy where I live right now (Southern U.S.), which is just fine with me but has other folks complaining that it's just not Christmas unless it's cold enough to kill you if you get lost in the woods overnight. Which got me wondering: Are there Southern Hemisphere Christmas songs about the weather? Dashing through the sand in a one-horse open ... dune buggy, maybe? Chestnuts roasting on an open barbecue? In the Bleak Midsummer?

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