Have Your Own Damn Self a Merry Little Christmas
Lexicon Valley
Lexicon Valley
4.8 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:15.5 | From BookSmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language. |
| 0:23.6 | Have yourself... |
| 0:25.6 | I'm John McWhorter. |
| 0:27.0 | A merry little Christmas. |
| 0:30.3 | And just listen to that. |
| 0:32.0 | Let your heart be light. |
| 0:45.3 | From now on, our troubles will be out of sight. Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. |
| 0:51.3 | Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas. |
| 0:57.0 | Make the Yuletide game. |
| 1:02.0 | Make the Yuletide game. |
| 1:05.0 | From now on, our troubles will be miles away. |
| 1:11.6 | Here we are as in old and... |
| 1:21.6 | That's Frank Sinatra, of course. |
| 1:24.6 | Notice how he doesn't strain as he goes up. That's one of the joys of his voice. |
| 1:29.3 | In any case, that song, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, originally from the film Meet Me in St. Louis, |
| 1:35.3 | and the music and lyrics are by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blaine, is for my sweetie, whose favorite Christmas song that is, |
| 1:42.3 | but it's also a linguistics lesson, as she has taught me. |
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