How Paul Kelly Cooked Up A Christmas Classic With Gravy Day (December 21st) almost upon us again we pulled apart the recipe and found out how Paul Kelly cooked up a Christmas classic. By Justin RouillonThursday 17 Dec 2020 Every Christmas Australians hit peak irony: belting out songs about snow and ice, while dressed in their ‘good thongs’ at the local carols. Apart from ‘Six White Boomers’ and Bucko and Champ’s take on Jingle Bells, Aussie Christmas tunes have struggled to make headway against the Northern Hemisphere favourites. But in 1996, Paul Kelly changed that with a Christmas song that by his own admission should never have lasted the test of time.