Lyrics Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Have You A Merry Little Christmas is definitely my favorite Christmas song. I’ve know this song from Christmas records my parents played when I was a kid. I especially remember the recording they played of the Carpenters singing this song.
I don’t have any funny stories about this song, because it is not a funny song. I used to like playing it on the piano a lot. I made a short film about two loners named Hugo and Ellora and I used this song.
They wander around their suburban hometown post-Christmas and come upon the town’s Christmas display. As they sit on the wheels of a toy train on the display, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas played on the soundtrack.
It perfectly captured the feeling of alienation they were experiencing in their lonely town and how lost they felt about their lives. I believe this to be one of the saddest Christmas songs there are out there and it has a beautiful melody.
It was first sung by Judy Garland whose voice and persona definitely brought the sadness to this song. Frank Sinatra didn’t like how depressing the song was so he had some lines changed, but to me, that seems wrong. The depressing nature of this song is its whole point.
This and I’ll Be Home For Christmas are two songs that have real emotion in them. They’re not silly and jolly like Jingle Bells or other annoying Christmas tunes. There have been some great covers of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Tori Amos and Coldplay both do great versions; both versions understand its melancholy.
Chris Martin of Coldplay sounds like a sad crooner in his version. Tori Amos’ version is truly haunting. I heard she covered the song after losing her baby near Christmas, so it takes a whole new tragic deeper meaning.
Lyrics Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Let your heart be light
From now on,
Our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Make the Yule-tide gay,
From now on,
Our troubles will be miles away.
Here we are as in olden days,
Happy golden days of yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more.
Through the years we all will be together
If the Fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now.
