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The original lyrics to "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"/ Christmas Pet Peeve


Christmas Pet Peeve ~

I much prefer the original line in the song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." The song lyric, for the vast majority of recordings I've heard, has been changed.

The build-up to the line is "Through the years we all will be together, if the Fates allow" - -


original line follows "Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow"

The changed line is now so very often - - "Hang a shining star upon the highest bough"


The original line adds a wondrous melancholy to the season -- the changed line is a silly ornament.








Posted - November 26, 2017
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  • 13277
    Thanks for your opinion. Unfortunately, I can never get back the time I spent reading something that makes zero difference in the grand scheme of things.
      November 26, 2017 6:25 PM MST
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  • 2960
    Now I can't get back the time I read your comment. Or typed this.

      November 26, 2017 6:31 PM MST
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  • 23576
    :)
    :)
      November 26, 2017 6:36 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Too bad for you, even if I actually, you know, cared. This post was edited by Stu Spelling Bee at November 26, 2017 7:34 PM MST
      November 26, 2017 7:34 PM MST
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  • 2960
    NOW YOU WASTED MORE OF MY TIME.
      November 26, 2017 7:35 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Take responsibility for your actions. You wasted your own time.
      November 26, 2017 7:38 PM MST
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  • 2960
    STOP WASTING MY TIME!!!!


      November 26, 2017 8:13 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Stop wasting your own time, if you so choose.
      November 26, 2017 8:41 PM MST
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  • 2960
    YOU'VE WASTED SEVERAL SECONDS OF MY TIME!!!! PLEASE STOP!!!!
      November 26, 2017 8:41 PM MST
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  • I agree with you Stu Bee. Anyone chooses to read these questions or answers; nobody is being held a wet sock to their mouth and made to read them. Lol
      November 26, 2017 9:23 PM MST
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  • 2960
    GREAT! Now YOU wasted my time because I had to look at your avatar that sort of looks like my cat. THANKS.

    Total time wasted = 2.2 seconds.

    :(
      November 26, 2017 9:25 PM MST
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  • Meeeooow! 
      November 26, 2017 9:31 PM MST
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  • You're welcome. You just showed you did not waste your time because you found he looks a lot like your cat. 
      November 26, 2017 9:37 PM MST
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  • 23576
    Thanks for responding to my strange "AM statement-instead-of-AM question," Stu Bee! Yeah, it's not a grand-scheme type of difference. But, to me, I do find it makes a difference to the song itself, though. (And my enjoyment of the song.) Which brings us back to - - it's just my opinion! Ha!
    :)
      November 26, 2017 6:32 PM MST
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  • Why are you allowed to talk?  
      November 26, 2017 6:56 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Just to annoy you and make you ask that question. Can't think of any other reason besides, you know, the first amendment.
      November 26, 2017 7:41 PM MST
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  • No.  I mean here.   The first Amendment doesn't grant you that right.  In fact your nurses shouldn't allow you near the computer either. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at November 26, 2017 7:56 PM MST
      November 26, 2017 7:43 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Just to annoy you and make you ask that question, then.
      November 26, 2017 8:39 PM MST
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  • 2960
    It's not Christmas until you're depressed and crying!!

    :) This post was edited by Mr. Bromide at November 26, 2017 6:55 PM MST
      November 26, 2017 6:44 PM MST
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  • 23576
    Yes! Ha!
    :)

    Here's one of my favorite Christmas songs - - and it's the most depressing Christmas song I've heard.  Dwight Yoakam's "Come On Christmas."

    Thanks for everything, Mr. Bromide!
    ;)

      November 26, 2017 6:49 PM MST
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  • Those aren't alternate lyrics. They are just different verses.  The ones you are talking about are just a different verse that wasn't included in the Frank Sinatra version.
      November 26, 2017 6:52 PM MST
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  • 23576
    Thanks, Glis, you're probably right.
    I went by the original version by Judy Garland that I heard in the musical "Meet Me In St. Louis" from which the song came (I think). Perhaps I didn't listen closely enough to the song because, knowing me, I am struck so strongly with the "muddle through somehow" line that I probably blocked out anything else about the song, ha! It's definitely my favorite line in the song.

    Yet, any version I've heard lately by current and recent singers/artists only has the "shining star" line and no "muddling through."
    :)
    But I need to keep listening and avoid generalizing too much!
    Thanks for helping me out, Glis!
    :)
      November 26, 2017 7:00 PM MST
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  • 2960
    MANDELA EFFECT!!!!!
      November 26, 2017 7:24 PM MST
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  • Nope.  I had to search lyrics because honestly I don't really know the version Welby is talking about.  Low and behold there is lots of sheet music with those lyrics as a third verse.
      November 26, 2017 7:39 PM MST
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