Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Composer Hugh Martin first sung by Judy Garland in "Meet me in St Louis" 1944 Have yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be light From now on Your troubles will be out of sight Have yourself a merry little Christmas Make the Yule-tide gay From now on Your troubles will be miles away Here we are as in olden days Happy golden days of yore Faithful friends who are dear to us They gather near to us once more Someday soon we all will be together, *if the fates allow. **Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow So have yourself a merry little Christmas Have yourself a merry little Christmas So have yourself a merry little Christmas now *originally written as "if the Lord allows" **changed by Frank Sinatra in 1957 to "Hang a shining star upon the highest bough"