{"id":1987,"date":"2011-12-14T22:27:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T22:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2011-12-14T22:27:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T22:27:29","slug":"merry-christmas-baby-ray-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayables\/2011\/12\/merry-christmas-baby-ray-charles.html","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas Baby &#8211; Ray Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Daily Video<\/h3>\n<p>Christmas music never sounded like this until the blues singers got a hold of &#8220;Merry Christmas Baby&#8221; starting with Charles Brown in 1947. The legends have been singing it ever since and the Ray Charles version of &#8220;Merry Christmas Baby&#8221; is one of the best. Kinda of sultry, kinda salty, today&#8217;s <a title=\"Prayables.com\" href=\"http:\/\/prayables.com\" target=\"_blank\">Prayable<\/a> pick for best Christmas song makes you tingle rather than jingle. Have fun with it and have a Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Christmas Music\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/christmas-music\/\">ENJOY MORE<\/a> Christmas Music!<\/strong><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ray Charles  &#039;Merry Christmas Baby&#039;  1979\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mAPvi9Oe29A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Merry Christmas Baby Lyrics &#8211; Ray Charles<\/h4>\n<p>Merry Christmas baby<br \/>\nBabe you sure did treat me nice<br \/>\nYeah! Merry Merry Merry Christmas baby<br \/>\nBabe you sure did treat me nice<br \/>\nGave me a diamond ring for Christmas<br \/>\nAnd now I&#8217;m living in paradise<\/p>\n<p>Oh! I&#8217;m feeling mighty fine this morning<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got good music on my radio<br \/>\nHey baby, I&#8217;m feeling mighty fine<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got good music on my radio<br \/>\nI would love to hug and kiss you baby<br \/>\nWhile you&#8217;re standing beneath the mistletoe<\/p>\n<p>Santa came down the chimney<br \/>\nAbout half past three<br \/>\nHe got all of these presents that you&#8217;ll use<br \/>\nSee, I&#8217;ll help you put on these<\/p>\n<p>Merry Merry Merry Christmas baby<br \/>\nOh! You sure been good to me<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t had a drink this evenin&#8217; baby<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m all lit up like a Christmas tree<\/p>\n<p>Hey! Merry Merry Merry Christmas baby<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got good music on my radio<br \/>\nI said, Merry Merry Merry Christmas baby<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got good music on my radio<br \/>\nI would love to hug and kiss you baby<br \/>\nWhile you&#8217;re standing beneath the mistletoe<\/p>\n<p><em>Composers: Lou Baxter and Johnny Moore<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/files\/2011\/12\/MerryChristmasBabyVid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1988\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/309\/2011\/12\/MerryChristmasBabyVid-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Video Christmas music never sounded like this until the blues singers got a hold of &#8220;Merry Christmas Baby&#8221; starting with Charles Brown in 1947. The legends have been singing it ever since and the Ray Charles version of &#8220;Merry Christmas Baby&#8221; is one of the best. Kinda of sultry, kinda salty, today&#8217;s Prayable pick&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,1233,60],"tags":[1200,1249,1251,1247,1246,1248,1250],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-music-2","category-christmas-music","category-religious-music","tag-best-christmas-song","tag-charles-brown","tag-christmas-music-2","tag-merry-christmas-baby","tag-merry-christmas-baby-lyrics","tag-merry-christmas-baby-ray-charles","tag-ray-charles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Merry Christmas Baby - Ray Charles - Prayables<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayables\/2011\/12\/merry-christmas-baby-ray-charles.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merry Christmas Baby - Ray Charles - Prayables\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Daily Video Christmas music never sounded like this until the blues singers got a hold of &#8220;Merry Christmas Baby&#8221; starting with Charles Brown in 1947. 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