"I'll Be Home for Christmas" is a popular Christmas song which recounts the joys of the Christmas season and reiterates that "I'll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams." It was first recorded by Bing Crosby but has become a seasonal standard with numerous recorded versions.
Lyrics
- I'm dreaming tonight of a place I love
- Even more then 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 love light beams
- I'll be home for Christmas
- If only in my dreams
Appearances in Christmas specials
- A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
- Alpha's Magical Christmas (1994)
- Jingle All the Way (1996) - Performed by Frank Sinatra
- Snowden's Christmas (1999) - Cover version plays over the closing logos and the following closing credits. Only seen on the non-split-screen version.
- Prancer Returns (2001) - Performed by Nickel Creek
- The Polar Express (2004)
- New Girl: "The 23rd" (2011) - Performed by Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward (as background music)
- A Pentatonix Christmas Special (2016) - Sung with Kelly Clarkson.
- Shazam! (2019) - Performed by Dean Martin