Music
HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS​​
Michael Bublé
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 far 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.
Instrumental
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.
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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.
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"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song written in 1943by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics.
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The song was written in 1943 for the film Meet Me in St. Louis, for which MGM had hired Martin and Blane to write several songs. Martin was vacationing in a house in the neighborhood of Southside in Birmingham, Alabama, that his father Hugh Martin had designed for his mother as a honeymoon cottage, located just down the street from his birthplace, and which later became the home of Martin and his family in 1923.
The song first appeared in a scene in which a family is distraught by the father's plans to move to New York City for a job promotion, leaving behind their beloved home in St. Louis, Missouri, just before the long-anticipated 1904 World's Fair begins. In a scene set on Christmas Eve, Judy Garland's character, Esther, sings the song to cheer up her despondent five-year-old sister, Tootie, played by Margaret O'Brien.
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This is an arrangement in the style of Michael Bublé
Recorded and mixed on Logic Pro X in December 2018