The Serbian twins Alex and Jo are back again, this time serenading us with their beautiful version of the Christmas classic ‘I’ll Be Home For Christmas‘. This is their fifth song cover to be presented here after there previous entry – Dream by Priscilla Ahn. I first heard them sing Christina Perri’s Back in Time which astounded me. I’ll Be Home For Christmas is the second song in my Christmas Countdown of 10 favourite Christmas songs and hymns (shared in no particular order) which will carry us right up to Christmas Eve.
The following was extracted from the Wikipedia page below:
“I’ll Be Home for Christmas” was written by the lyricist Kim Gannon and composer Walter Kent and recorded in 1943 by Bing Crosby, who scored a top ten hit with the song. Originally written to honor soldiers overseas who longed to be home at Christmas time, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” has since gone on to become a Christmas standard.
The song is sung from the point of view of a soldier stationed overseas during World War II, writing a letter to his family. In the message, he tells his family he will be coming home and to prepare the holiday for him, and requests snow, mistletoe, and presents “on” the tree. The song ends on a melancholy note, with the soldier saying, “I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams“. The flip side of the original recording (Decca 18570B) was “Danny Boy.”
[Verse 1]
I’ll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents on the tree
[Verse 2]
Christmas Eve will find me
Where the lovelight gleams
I’ll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams
References:
1. I’ll Be Home for Christmas – Wikipedia
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I remember them….it’s a beautiful rendition by two beautiful young women.
Alex and Jo would be hard to forget. I am so grateful I stumbled across their channel a few years ago. I doubt ‘I’ll Be Home For Christmas’ will be the last song from them to feature here. I couldn’t agree more with your comment: ‘a beautiful rendition by two beautiful young women’. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Such a pretty rendition. Alex and Jo also come across as very likeable.
Those were lovely sentiments Christian. I have passed them onto Alex and Jo who have always been so open and kind to me. Cheers.