Ralph Blaine

It's really a great song, potentially, and I think you'll be sorry if you don't do it.

So I went home and wrote the version that's in the movie.

Well, I'll sing it for you.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas.

It may be your last.

Next year we may all be living in the past.

Pretty sad.

Yeah, I did.

The one in the movie was, let's see, have yourself a merry Christmas.

Oh, until then we all will be together if the fates allow.

Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow.

That was one that was in the movie.

Then I got a phone call from Frank Sinatra saying I'm doing an album called A Jolly Christmas and I love your song, but it's just not very jolly.

Do you think you could jolly it up a little bit for me?

So then I wrote the line about have you...

Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.

And Frank liked that and recorded it.

And people, they do, sometimes they do that line, and sometimes they do the muddle through line somehow.

I like the muddle through one better, too.

Well, my favorite Christmas memory was of being six or seven years old and my mother decorating the tree.