I'll Be Home For Christmas Lyrics

Lyric discussion by kmk_natasha 

Cover art for I'll Be Home For Christmas lyrics by Bing Crosby

According to Buck Ram, who was the primary lyricist, he had written the lyrics as a 16 year old, homesick college student.

However, I think it is just as applicable to anyone away from home.

Song Meaning

I think of "home" to mean a happy place (a place that warms the heart) although I used to listen to this when I was half the country away during the Thanksgiving season up until I could finally fly home to my family over the college Christmas break. Bing was the master of Christmas music...he and Nat King Cole (plus others of their generation) knew how to turn the simplist of Christmas tunes into masterpieces.