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  • Original Lyrics to ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ –... (en)
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  • Original Lyrics to ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ Claim TikTok video features the original lyrics to Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, as they were before Judy Garland made them re-write the entire song. Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting In December 2022, TikTok user @realityshowreject shared a video about the original lyrics to Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, stating that Judy Garland objected to them: @realityshowreject Does Christmas make anyone else incredibly sad? It always just makes me want to cry. What other sad Christmas songs should I sing? #fyp #christmas #christmasmusic #haveyourselfamerrylittlechristmas #GenshinImpact33 #voiceeffects ♬ original sound – Reality Show Reject Before singing the song with the original lyrics, @realityshowreject said: I learned from TikTok that the original lyrics for Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas were too sad, so Judy Garland made them rewrite the entire song ... so I found the original lyrics ... Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die At the end of the clip, @realityshowreject added: Yeah, I can see why they rewrote them. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas remained a well-known and often played Christmas song in 2022, with the following lyrics : 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 Yuletide gay From now on our 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 A Wikipedia entry for Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas provided a succinct origin story for the carol. It mentioned Judy Garland as the individual who introduced the song in a 1944 film: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is a song written in 1943 by 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. In 2007, ASCAP ranked it the third most performed Christmas song during the preceding five years that had been written by ASCAP members. In 2004 it finished at No. 76 in AFI’s 100 Years...100 Songs rankings of the top tunes in American cinema. Revisions to the song were referenced in a December 2019 Macleans.ca article about the best Christmas songs. In that piece, a contributor accused Sinatra of altering Garland’s version: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas The crescendo at the end of the commonly sung version—Hang a shining star upon the highest bough—is the hideously tacky ornament on a tree hastily redecorated at Frank Sinatra’s order. Before recording the tune written for Judy Garland in 1944’s Meet Me in St. Louis , Sinatra demanded the songwriter revamp the gently bittersweet and hopeful lyrics into unadulterated treacle for his A Jolly Christmas album. The shining star line replaced, Until then, we’ll have to muddle through somehow—a line that reflects the anxious moment for the film’s Smith family, and for many resembles the quiet struggles which Christmastime masks with tinsel and mulled-wine buzzes. More egregiously, the Ol’ Blue Eyes-ordered rewrite changes the whole song to present tense, from future. Garland’s recording goes, Next year all our troubles will be miles away, not From now on our troubles will... The song was intended as a musical wish for a rosier future, not a celebration of how great everything is. Because often it’s not, as much as the modern version bids to gloss over everything. Let Sinatra do it his way. Close your eyes, channel Judy, muddle through this little Christmas and hope for a better 2020. In December 2017, the Chicago Tribune published a story on the topic (Original lyrics to ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ were anything but merry), and analyzed the tone of the dark original lyrics to Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: The song was written by Hugh Martin for the 1944 movie Meet Me in St. Louis. The movie’s star, Judy Garland, found the lyrics depressing and pleaded with Martin to change them, which he did, reluctantly, though later he conceded that the original was hysterically lugubrious. In his original, he included the lines: Faithful friends who were dear to us Will be near to us no more That’s about as merry as an empty stocking on Christmas morning. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly published the original lyrics to Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, observing that they drew attention in the period after September 11 2001: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ORIGINAL VERSION Have yourself a merry little Christmas It may be your last Next year we may all be living in the past Have yourself a merry little Christmas Pop that champagne cork Next year we may all be living in New York No good times like the olden days Happy golden days of yore Faithful friends who were dear to us Will be near to us no more But at least we all will be together If the Lord allows From now on, we’ll have to muddle through somehow So have yourself a merry little Christmas now A December 2022 TikTok post by @realityshowreject suggested that the original lyrics to Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas were too sad, and that Judy Garland requested a rewrite for the song for a 1944 film. Although less popular, the Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas original lyrics routinely made an appearance in entertainment news in December, of any year. Posted in Fact Checks , Viral Content Tagged have yourself a merry little christmas original lyrics , Judy Garland , original lyrics have yourself a merry little christmas , tiktok , today i learned , viral tiktok posts (en)
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