Favorite/Least Favorite Christmas Carol?
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I came home from a White Elephant party with the Duck Dynasty Christmas CD one year....what was suppose to be a joke turned into an absolute knock out staple in my house. Hairy Christmas is my hands down favorite Christmas Carol.
Worst: Wham's Last Christmas.
Worst: Wham's Last Christmas.
I'm going to hell for this (and many other things), but every time I hear this song I can only think "Mary did you know how babies are made?"
On a more serious note, my issue with that song is of course Mary knew. All you have to do is read the Christmas story in the gospels to know that Mary absolutely knew the magitude of Jesus' birth. An angel told her she was giving birth to the Son of God and the angel blessed her for trusting in God's promise.
(Stepping down from the pulpit now).
Yeah, Santa had been having an affair with the mom for several years. Kid did the month and was born on Sept. 25th.
I learned something from a clip on a 1980s TV show, about the song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas -- its connection to WWII.
It was released in November 1944, with the musical Meet Me in St. Louis, which concerned the 1904 World’s Fair. The lyrics in the movie were about the family’s planned move to New York (not WWII).
Judy Garland Lyrics
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
Next year all our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
Next year all our troubles will be miles away
Once again as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who were near to us
Will be dear to us once more
Someday soon we all will be together
If the fates allow
Until then, we’ll have to muddle through somehow
So have yourself a merry little Christmas now
Judy Garland refused to sing the song as written, as she considered the lyrics too depressing. So it was revised.
You can find more about how the song came about in the links below.
The audio clip in the second link starts with that song, then goes into others, but at 11:30 goes into much greater detail and finishes with it.
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www.classicfm.com
It was released in November 1944, with the musical Meet Me in St. Louis, which concerned the 1904 World’s Fair. The lyrics in the movie were about the family’s planned move to New York (not WWII).
Judy Garland Lyrics
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
Next year all our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
Next year all our troubles will be miles away
Once again as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who were near to us
Will be dear to us once more
Someday soon we all will be together
If the fates allow
Until then, we’ll have to muddle through somehow
So have yourself a merry little Christmas now
Judy Garland - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Lyrics | AZLyrics.com
Judy Garland "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas": Have yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be light Next year all our troubles will be ou...
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Judy Garland refused to sing the song as written, as she considered the lyrics too depressing. So it was revised.
You can find more about how the song came about in the links below.
The audio clip in the second link starts with that song, then goes into others, but at 11:30 goes into much greater detail and finishes with it.
The (St. Louis) Story Behind “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” | Timeless
Judy Garland insisted that the original gloomy lyrics of
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The original lyrics to ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ weren’t very merry at all
Did you know ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ could have had very different words? A glimpse into the journey the famous Christmas song has been on…
There's a memory. My dad loved Spike Jones and the City Slickers. Non Christmas song, but William Tell Overture is corny/funny. The first minute can be skipped.
William Tell Overture
