Wanted: One song celebrating Christmas in the Arizona desert

Holiday tunes found for many climates, but we didn’t find a desert one

Have you ever noticed that Christmas music tends to be focused on snowier climates?

In “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” Johnny Mathis sings about the tree in the park, “the sturdy kind that doesn’t mind the snow.”

“Jingle Bells” opens with snow — “Dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh” — which sounds pretty cold to us!

And Irving Berlin doesn’t mince words, either. In “White Christmas,” he’s dreaming of a snowy holiday, although one has to think that perhaps the singer is somewhere warmer to be dreaming of snow.

And in “Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow,” Dean Martin warns that the “weather outside is frightful,” which makes sense given the title.

But to find songs that celebrate Christmas in warmer climates like Yuma, one has to bypass the classics and dig a little deeper.

Fortunately, there are songs out there like “Christmas in the Caribbean” by Jimmy Buffet, which makes sense, since he is the epitome of warm weather fun.

In fact, there’s a whole genre of surf Christmas music out there, thanks to artists like the Ventures and Dukes of Surf.

Of course, we would be remiss if we skipped over “Mele Kalikimaka,” a little tribute to Christmas the Hawaiian way.

We found a variety of songs pining for Christmas in warmer locations, or celebrating warm Christmas, from Carolina to Jamaica.

We even found some that lament the lack of snow … but not a one that we found celebrated Christmas in Arizona.

Maybe that’s an opportunity for a songwriter, to celebrate a state where one could, in theory, ski on Christmas morning, then hop in the car to bask in the sun in just a few short hours. Or, one could write a musical ode to the joys of stringing lights on the front yard cactus.

Fortunately, there’s a variety of Christmas music from which to choose out there, Yuma. And whatever tunes accompany your day — be it dreams of a white Christmas or a little “Feliz Navidad,” — we hope your holidays are merry and bright!

DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS OR NOT?