Gravy, a phone call from jail, and asking your brother not to seduce your wife: these may not sound like the makings of a Christmas song. But Christmas in Australia is different. It is usually hot, for starters: something the country’s most-loved festive song acknowledges.
“They say it’s gonna be a hundred degrees, even more maybe, but that won’t stop the roast,” Paul Kelly, one of the country’s most beloved musicians, sings on How to Make Gravy, a song that plays as a phone call from Joe, who is in prison, to his brother Dan. “Who’s gonna make the gravy now? I bet it won’t taste the same.”
