The Greatest Sad Christmas Songs Ever

We don’t want to sour anyone’s Christmas spirit – or marshmallows – by commenting on all 100 songs at once. But here are 80 more amazing ones for you to discover on your own time:

Marvin Gaye, “I’ll Come Home for Christmas”
Taylor Swift, “Tis the Damn Season”
Prince, “Another Lonely Christmas”
John Prine, “Christmas in Prison”
The Moonglows, “Just a Lonely Christmas”
Frank Sinatra, “Whatever Happened to Christmas”
Phoebe Bridgers, “A Christmas Carol”
Wes Lachot, “Christmas Is The Only Time I Think About You”
Mike Viola, “Give Me Another Chance at Christmas”
John Denver, “Please Dad Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas”
Item number, “Merry Christmas Will Do”
Sufjan Stevens, “Did I Make You Cry Christmas Day? (You Deserved It)”
Low, “If You Were Born Today (Song for Baby Jesus)”
Staple Singers, “Who Took the Joy Out of Christmas?”
Nat King Cole, “The Little Boy Santa Forgot”
Ralph Stanley, “Please Daddy, Don’t Make Us Cry on Christmas Day”
Over the Rhine, “All I Get for Christmas Is Blue”
The Kinks, “Father Christmas”
Roberta Flack, “25th of Last December”
Willie Nelson, “Pretty Paper”
Buck Owens, “Blue Christmas Lights”
Woody Guthrie, “1913 Massacre”
Vince Gill, “It won’t be the same this year”
Aimee Mann, “Calling on Mary”
Loretta Lynn, “Gift of the Blues”
Jim Croce, “It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way”
Jimmy Witherspoon, “Oh, How I Hate to See Christmas Come Around”
Chris Isaak, “Christmas on TV”
Commander Cody, “Daddy Drinks Our Christmas”
Ben Folds, “Me and Maurice”
Sarah McLachlan, “Wintersong”
Del McCoury, “Call Collect on Christmas”
Ernest Tubb, “I’ll Walk the Floor This Christmas”
The feelings, “What do the lonely do at Christmas”
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, “Xmas Time (It Sure Don’t Feel Like It)”
The Long Blondes, “Christmas is Canceled”
Pearl Jam, “Let Me Sleep (It’s Christmas)”
George Jones, “Lonely Christmas Call”
Loretta Lynn, “Christmas Without Father”
Lyle Lovett, “Christmas Morning”
Bobby Bare, “Christmas at the Jersey Lily Lounge”
Ernest Tubb, “I trim my Christmas tree with drops”
Jo Stafford, “Toyland”
Kitty Wells, “Christmas Ain’t Like Christmas Anymore”
Burt Bacharach, “The Bell That Could Not Ring”
Aimee Mann & Michael Penn, “Christmastime”
Buck Owens, “It’s Christmas Time for Everybody But Me”
Irma Thomas, “Christmas without the Creole”
Wes Lachot, “Christmas Is The Only Time (I Think About You)”
Johnny Paycheck, “Mommy for a while on Christmas Day”
Band Aid, “Do They Know It’s Christmas”
Toby Keith, “Santa, I’m Right Here”
Randy Stonehill, “Christmas at Denny’s”
Jerry Lee Lewis, “I Can’t Have a Merry Christmas, Mary, Without You”
Son 60, “Mary Xmess”
Billy Bob Thornton, “My Dreams of Christmas”
Saffire and the Uppity Blues Women, “One Parent Christmas”
Tom Waits, “Christmas Card from a Whore in Minneapolis”
Emerson Lake & Palmer, “I Believe in Father Christmas”
Taylor Swift, “Christmas When You Were Mine”
Shelby Lynne, “Xmas”
Mary Gauthier, “Christmas in Paradise”
Mary J. Blige, “No Happy Holidays”
Trick Daddy, “Ain’t No Santa”
Randy Newman, “Christmas in Capetown”
Be Good Tanya’s, “Rudy”
Everything but the girl, “December 25th”
Julia Fordham, “December 24th”
The Orioles, “(It’s Gonna Be a) Lonely Christmas”
Elvis Costello, “St. Stephen’s Day Murders”
Jackson Browne, “The Rebel Jesus”
The Whites, “Christmas without Mama”
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, “Christmas Tears”
Loretta Lynn, “I Won’t Decorate Your Christmas Tree”
Bob Wills, “Empty Chair at the Christmas Table”
Billy Idol, “Yellin’ at the Christmas Tree”
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison, “Shut In at Christmas”
Timbuk 3, “All I Want For Christmas (Is World Peace)”
Ernest Tubb, “Christmas Is Just Another Lonely Day”
William S. Burroughs, “A Junky’s Christmas”
Johnny and Jon, “Christmas in Vietnam”
Simon and Garfunkel, “7 O’Clock News/Silent Night”
John Prine, “All the Best”