Have Yourself A Merry Little XMas

11 more days till XMas!!! I finally got my XMas CDs out... listening to it while I process photos of yesterday's Wedding gown hunting trip.... so of course, the first thing I played is my FAVE out of all the XMas songs - for many years now, this has been my ultra FAVE: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas by Judy Garland.


This VIDEO is actually from the movie, Meet Me in St. Louis…. in my opinion, simply the BEST version of this song…. and am not just saying it because I "happen to know Dorothy" - so am automatically supposed to like Judy Garland…. Just feel her version is so understated and so direct …. and yet you can still feel the sorrow, hope and sweetness in her voice….

I was introduced to this movie one XMAS year…. just as most of my XMasses in the US, I was alone… my family is all over the world — with their very own families… and my partner at the time, usually goes home for XMAS to be with his family… we welcomed the New Year together instead… so the words to the song kinda hits me more…

of course life has changed for me of late… having moved back to ASIA, albeit in Taiwan… I am now much closer to my family in Manila so I am blessed enough to go home the last few years… but my love for this song never wanes… and the memories of it keeping me company over those bleak XMasses spent in America will always be appreciated….

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Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Written by Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on your troubles will be out of sight, yeah

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
From now on your troubles will be miles away, oh ooh

Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore, ah
Faithful friends who are dear to us

Gather near to us, once more, ooh
Through the years we all will be together
If the fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough, ohh
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now
Oooh…

Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us, once more, ohh
Through the years we all will be together
If the fates allow, oh yeah

But ’til then we’ll have to muddle through, somehow
Oh yeah, oh ooh oh
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now