"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a Christmas song introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics, which has become more common than the original. It was credited to composer Hugh Martin and lyricist Ralph Blane, although during a December 21, 2006 NPR interview, Martin said that Blane had encouraged him to write it but had not had anything more to do with doing so. In 2007, ASCAP ranked it the third most performed Christmas song written by ASCAP members of the past five years.
Lyrics[]
Judy Garland[]
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
Next year on our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
Next year on our troubles will be miles away
Once again as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Will be near to us once more
Someday soon we all will be together
If the fates allow
Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow
So have yourself a merry little Christmas now
Frank Sinatra/The Carpenters[]
Christmas future is far away
Christmas past is past
Christmas present is here today
Bringing joy that will last
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
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
Appearances in Christmas specials[]

Kermit and Miss Piggy sing the song in A Muppet Family Christmas.
- Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
- Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas (1977)
- The Bob Hope All Star Christmas Comedy Special (1977)
- Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978)
- John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together (1979)
- Emu at Christmas (1984)
- A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
- Home Alone (1990) - Mel Tormé
- All I Want for Christmas (1991; only the song's title is sung)
- Disney's Christmas Fantasy on Ice (1992; instrumental)
- Snowden's Christmas (1999; only in the non-split-screen credits)
- South Park: "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" (1999)
- Prancer Returns (2001)
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: "Holly Jolly Jimmy" (2003; Parodied as "Have Yourself a Happy Little Pule")
- 30Rock: "Ludachristmas" (2007)
- glee: "Glee, Actually" (2012)
- NCIS: New Orleans: "Blue Christmas" (2015)
- A Very Pentatonix Christmas (2017) - Sung with Brett Eldredge.
- Green Book (2018)
- Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas (2021)
Album releases[]
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