Lyrics to
I’ll Be Home For Christmas

This version of I’Ll Be Home For Christmas was released by The Carpenters in 1978.

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I’m dreaming tonight
Of a place I love
Even more than I usually do
And although I know
It’s a long road back
I promise you

I’ll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please, have snow and mistletoe
And presents on the tree

Christmas Eve will find me
Where the lovelight gleams
I’ll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams

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About Lyrics and I’Ll Be Home For Christmas by The Carpenters

The lyrics for I’Ll Be Home For Christmas are defined as the words making up the song released by The Carpenters in 1978. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to I’Ll Be Home For Christmas have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only The Carpenters and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to I’Ll Be Home For Christmas by The Carpenters if you think through it. 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 I’Ll Be Home For Christmas" means the words set to the music of I’Ll Be Home For Christmas, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Carpenters. 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 I’Ll Be Home For Christmas and the lyrics to I’Ll Be Home For Christmas are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Carpenters who came here looking just for the lyrics to I’Ll Be Home For Christmas, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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