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The perennial yuletide favorite “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” was introduced in the 1944 MGM film Meet Me in St. Louis. It’s a bittersweet song, sung by Esther Smith (Judy Garland) to her little sister Tootie (Margaret O’Brien) at a point in the story when they think that their family is about to move to New York from their beloved home in the Gateway City. The melody was by Ralph Blane; the lyric, by Hugh Martin, began: “Have yourself a merry little Christmas, / Let your heart be light. / Next year all our troubles will be out of sight.”
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