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title: "merry christmas (from the beach)"

meaning: "Encinitas Christmas: white caps as snow, sand angels and palm-tree lights: Kyle's Carlsbad campsite, bonfire ring, alright to do it differently."

year: 2024
release: "merry christmas (from the beach)"
releaseType: "single"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

credits: "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton."

apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/merry-christmas-from-the-beach/1784055571?i=1784055572"

themes: ["Christmas", "beach", "California", "Encinitas", "holiday"]

isrc: QZZ7S2486545
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  Merry Christmas
  From the beach
  Hope you feel as
  Good as me

  On the water
  In the sea
  It's alright
  To do it differently

  Merry Christmas
  From the beach
  Merry Christmas
  From the beach

  I see the white caps in the ocean
  Pretend it's snowing when it's sunny
  I'm decorating a coastal pine
  Our little Charlie Brown Christmas Time

  We're making angels in the sand
  Digging holes to nowhere
  Bit different than tradition
  Hanging tiny light around the palm tree
  It's a little bit chilly
  At least to me...

  Merry Christmas
  From the beach
  Hope you feel as
  Good as me

  On the water
  In the sea
  It's alright
  To do it differently

  Merry Christmas
  From the beach
  Merry Christmas

  Merry Christmas
  From the beach
  Merry Christmas

  On a bright December night
  Walk the coastline with me
  Maybe we could grab a ring
  And light a bonfire

  I hear that Kyle got a campsite
  Up in Carlsbad
  You know he always got that good beer
  The good green
  The good times
  Are you feeling fine?
  Then sing along with it:

  Merry Christmas
  From the beach
  Hope you feel as
  Good as me

  By the ocean
  In the sea
  It's alright
  To do it differently

  Merry Christmas
  Merry Christmas
  Merry Christmas

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Standalone holiday single (**December 13, 2024** · Beformer), not on [*US*](/albums/us/), [*Moonlight Beach*](/albums/moonlight-beach/), or *A Very Doobert Christmas, Vol. 1* (that's the [*Michael Bublé, My Santa Buddy*](/songs/michael-buble-my-santa-buddy/) era). Same seasonal lane as [*don't join the skeletons!*](/songs/dont-join-the-skeletons/): holiday song, California register.

The hook is the whole argument: *merry Christmas from the beach*, *it's alright to do it differently*. White caps for snow, a coastal pine for the Charlie Brown tree, sand angels and palm-tree lights, *a little bit chilly / at least to me*. SoCal winter as its own tradition.

The invitation is homie geography like [*Feels So Good*](/songs/feels-so-good/): a December coastline walk, a bonfire, Kyle's campsite up in Carlsbad with the good beer and the good green. Not trying to win Christmas, just to mean it from where you actually live. See: [Catalog](/catalog/).

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