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Nobel Winner Bob Dylan Once Made The Weirdest Christmas Video Ever

Nobel Winner Bob Dylan Once Made The Weirdest Christmas Video Ever
Bob Dylan in It Must Be Santa
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan in It Must Be Santa

This might be the most unusual chapter in the long and storied career of Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan.

In 2009, Dylan turned a classic Christmas song into a holiday music video so strange that it has to be considered a masterpiece.

Dylan, wearing a wig and a hat, sings a polka version of “It Must Be Santa” from his “Christmas In The Heart” album, as revelers around him sing, drink, dance and fight at a wild party.

The lyrics are mostly faithful to the 1960 original, except for when he starts naming U.S. presidents along with Santa’s reindeer.

Somehow, a 2013 poll of Rolling Stone readers named the tune one of Dylan’s 10 worst ― a judgment that seems more than a little harsh.

Check it out above and decide for yourself.

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