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Guitar: I’ll Be Home For Christmas (Including lyrics and chords)

2,565 views · Published 20 December 2017 · 2:58 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: threelegsoman · 2017 · Education

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This is a request from subscriber Ken Shuttlesworth. The song was performed originally by Bing Crosby.
According to Wikipedia: 
The song was written by the lyricist Kim Gannon and composer Walter Kent. Songwriter and later producer and manager for The Platters, Buck Ram, who said he previously wrote a poem and song with the same title, was credited as a co-writer of the song following a lawsuit brought by Ram's publisher, Mills Music. Bing Crosby's original 1943 release of the song on Decca Records listed only Walter Kent and Kim Gannon as the songwriters on the record label. Later pressings added the name of Buck Ram to the songwriting credit.

Originally written to honor soldiers overseas who longed to be home at Christmastime, "I'll Be Home for Christmas" has since gone on to become a Christmas standard.

Searching for the chords for the song, I found a number of sites giving various interpretations, so I have chosen to use ones that for me seem to fit the song.

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