“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” as we know it today has been modified from its original (and most depressing) version, which contained specific references to the feelings of the characters in Meet Me in St. It’s a classic for the way it stands out from the overwhelmingly positive and goofy Christmas songbook - it makes people who are lonely, be it physically or emotionally, feel seen during a season that pressures everyone to be merry and bright. Louis fell away, and the song has become more generally synonymous with the holidays. Over the decades, the association of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” with Meet Me in St. Esther sings the song to her 5-year-old sister, Tootie (Margaret O’Brien), and immediately afterward a distraught Tootie has an iconic temper tantrum, hitting snowmen in the yard with a big stick while scream-sobbing. Louis amid the highly anticipated 1904 World’s Fair. In the film, Judy Garland’s character Esther and her family are gutted at the holidays upon learning that due to their father’s job, they have to move to New York City (the horror!) and thus leave their beloved home of St. Written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane in 1943, the song made its debut in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. You don’t become the best Christmas song of all time by being just another cute and fun bop, and sure enough, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” captures the dark side of the holidays it’s a song for the cynics, the sad girlies, and the lonely boys like Dan Humphrey.

A very merry little meet cute