HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS sung by Sam Harris, Live! (Rehearsal)

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Sam rehearses "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" as a special holiday treat for his Vlog People.

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a Christmas song written for the MGM Musical, Meet Me In St. Louis. It was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane [during an interview with Hugh Martin on NPR on 12/21/06, he said Ralph Blane encouraged him to continue to write the song, but really did not have anything more to do with writing it] and made famous by Judy Garland in the 1944 film "Meet Me in St. Louis". The movie chronicles the change in seasons and times of St. Louis including the Christmas season. In the famous scene, Garland sings the tearful tune to child star Margaret O'Brien. The melancholy tune and lyrics were originally even more somber but were adapted by the song writers to the current version at Garland's request.

Most of the online references place "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" as being first performed in "Meet Me In St. Louis" in 1944. The original, however, was a much darker song, written about hopes for a better Christmas in the future:

Christmas future is far away
Christmas past is past
Christmas present is here today
Bringing joy that may last

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
May your heart be light
In a year our troubles will be out of sight
From now on

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the yuletide gay
In a year our troubles will be miles away

Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Precious friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more

I know that
In a year we all will be together
If the Fates allow
Until then, we'll just have to muddle through somehow
And have ourselves a merry little Christmas now.

*** The song was changed for Judy Garland, who did not like the tone of the lyrics. These are the lyrics many sing:

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
On the highest bough,
And have yourself
A merry little Christmas now.

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[dinodogstar]

I love this song, happy and sad at the same time..and Mr. Harris' rendition is as usual, excellent, but the recording quality doesn't really do too much to highlight his ability. But it's all real and that does matter enough.

[FrontRowGuy]

Just lovely Sam...

[jvane2010]

Barbra does the

Christmas future is far away

Christmas past is past

Christmas present is here today

Bringing joy that may last

Christmas future is far away

Christmas past is past

Christmas present is here today

Bringing joy that may last

intro in her version..

[shantelh]

beautiful voice wondeful do you havea live site 2010

[FLBoy46]

!!! excellent !!!!

[MissSchattig]

Wooonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[marekerhardt]

We love you Sam. Adam Lambert has the good fortune to sound like you a bit. WONDERFUL!

[PoxyBear]

Beautiful version of this song. So nice to see that you're still using your gift and brightening this world. Can't believe I first saw you all those years ago on Star Search.

[sweetlikehoney31]

ooh!!! what a lovely voice! i just loved to hear that over and over again you sound like the original singer....... im geting a little exicited this coming christmas..... christmas is just around the corner.... god bless

[jettkrash]

great voice, but you need to hire a better camera man and lose the spikey Billy Idol hairdo.

keep up the good work