I’d never heard this sad and melancholy song before today, when someone mentioned it in a Facebook thread. The term “Hard candy Christmas” refers to a Christmas in which money is so tight that all the stockings can be filled with is cheap hard candy. There is always a sadness to this season, isn’t there? We should always try to remember that.
2016-12-04
You've never heard "Hard Candy Christmas" before?! That's rather shocking to me… but then, I am a couple years older than you, I think, and country music was probably more of a factor in my younger years than yours. Still… it seems like it was a regular feature of '70s variety shows.