Prelude:
My favorite Christmas album is A Twisted Christmas by Twisted Sister.
Twisted Sister is the band with all the make-up and the guy who wears shoulder pads.
His name is Dee Snider and he was raised Episcopalian.
Frank Sinatra sang do be do be do and also sang Christmas songs. Do you ask, for even a second, if that was some kind of joke?
Now:
Dee Snider is serious when he sings, follow me in merry measure, which is a line from Deck the Halls, which I’d heard countless times before, but never really heard until he sang it. When he sang it, a light went off in my head. Words had meaning and they meant what they said. Another way to say this is: The song reached me.