The King celebrates Winter Solstice

This is the King singing "Winter Wonderland". It's played pretty much exclusively as a Christmas song, and El Mundo includes it on their list of 20 Christmas YouTube video songs. But it actually doesn't mention Christmas. Was Elvis part of the "War on Christmas"?!?



When you hear a song as much as I've heard this one, it's easy to take the lyrics for granted. But the key story in this song is this:

In the meadow we can build a snowman
Then pretend that he is Parson Brown
He'll say, are you married? We'll say, no, man
But you can do the job when you're in town

It then goes on to talk about conspiring by the fire "to face unafraid the plans that we made".

So, just why would Parson Brown be so curious to know if they were married? And why should they need special resolve to "face unafraid" their presumably romantic plans made walking in the snow? Plans of which Parson Brown apparently disapproves. Just what is going on in this song?

Tags: christmas songs, elvis presley, winter wonderland