CHRISTMAS SONGS FOR 2020
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We were watching MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS last night, and I got to thinking about how appropriate “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is as a song for this Christmas. “Have yourself a merry little Christmas,” it tells us, “let your hearts be light,” and promises that next year all our troubles will be miles away and out of sight.It remembers “happy golden days” when we were all together and friends “who were dear to us” gathered near to us, and says hopefully, “Through the years we all will be together
If the fates allow,” and tells us in spite of things to hang a star on the highest bough of the Christmas tree and have ourselves a merry little Christmas now.
In the movie, when Esther sings the song, her family is moving to New York, where she will be separated from the boy she loves, and her little sister Tootie will be separated from her beloved snow people and from the ice man she loves to ride with and from the World’s Fair and everything else she treasures. It’s a truly sad Christmas for them, filled with loss and separation, and a lot like ours, making “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” a perfect song for this year.
I also got to thinking about the song, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” which was written during World War II and was supposed to be from the point of view of a soldier a long way from home and not knowing if he’d ever see his loved ones again. The song ends wistfully:
“I’ll be home for Christmas If only in my dreams.”
It should remind us that we’re not the only ones to have had bad Christmases, and that some people have had holidays far worse than ours.
Speaking of which, I have a Christmas carol for this year. It’s on our Julie Andrews Christmas album. It’s called, “The Lamb of God,” and it perfectly captures this year:
“Awake, awake, ye drowsy souls
And hear what I shall tell.
Remember Christ, the Lamb of God
Redeemed our souls from hell.
He’s crowned with thorns,
Spit on with scorn,
His friends have hid themselves.
So, God send you all much joy in the year.
So, God send you all much joy in the year.
I know it sounds terrible, but it’s that very irony that’s at the heart of Christmas, and it reminded me that there have been many terrible years in the two-thousand-year-old history of Christmas, starting with the first one, years when tyrants were ascendant and the bad guys won–or seemed to win.
But in spite of them, of all the Herods and Pontius Pilates and Neroes and Hitlers and Trumps, the spirit of Christmas, of kindness and love and self-seacrifice, prevailed. And still prevails. And triumphs.
But Henry Wadsworth Longfellow says it much better than I can:
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
I thought as how this day had come
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
And in despair I bowed my head,
“There is no peace on earth,” I said,
“For hate is strong
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men.”
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep
“God is not dead nor doth he sleep.
The wrong shall fail,
The right prevail,
With peace on earth, good will to men.”
Merry Christmas to all of you!
Connie Willis