It’s not always the season to be jolly
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| Armida Siguion-Reyna |
You read this on the day of the Aawitan Kita Christmas party. My husband Sig attended the last one, as he did our daughter-in-law’s birthday party, in 2010. A week later, he was gone. Remembering his abrupt departure has put me in sentimental mode, though not necessarily depressed, and wondering about sad Christmas songs. Here are some of them.
“Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” first sung by Judy Garland in the 1944 movie Meet Me in St. Louis. The lyrics aren’t at all melancholy, but World War II was yet to end when the song was first released, so whatever stories there were on film and radio that spoke of families being uprooted really made people cry.
“Have yourself a merry little Christmas / Let your heart be light
From now on / our troubles will be out of sight / Have yourself a merry little Christmas / Make the Yule-tide gay / From now on /
our troubles will be miles away.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111206com4.html
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