Lyrics to
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

This version of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas was released by John Denver in 1979.

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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, your 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 upon the highest bough.
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now.

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About Lyrics and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas by John Denver

The lyrics for Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by John Denver. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - John Denver and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas by John Denver in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" means the words set to the music of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Denver. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and the lyrics to Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Denver who came here looking just for the lyrics to Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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