Written by group founder Chris Butler, in this song a woman meets a guy at a ski shop and gets his number. As the year goes by, they make dates, but for different reasons they can't get together. The woman is exhausted and ready to spend Christmas alone, but when she goes out for cranberry sauce to complete her meal, she runs into this guy and finds out he is also spending the holidays alone. Finally, they get together, giving her a merry Christmas after all.
The title is a play on "Christmas Rappin'," a 1979 song by Kurtis Blow that was the first rap song released on a major label. In 1981, rap music was just starting to enter the mainstream, and The Waitresses used a spoken style that could be considered rapping. Also, Chris Butler liked the play on the word "wrap," since the story wraps around, coming full circle at the end.
Inspiration for this song came from the magical Christmas feeling engendered in New York City that is seen in movies like Miracle on 34th Street. It's the idea that things will somehow work out in the end. "There is a feeling in New York that there is something in the background cooking around that time of year," Chris Bulter said in a Songfacts interview. "It does make things work out OK."
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