Sometimes the definitive version of a song really is the first one.
Here’s Judy Garland.
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One of my favorites, and I always low-level object to the slightly happied-up version where the lyrics are changed. One very real thing about Christmas is that there are moments of nostalgia or sadness or melacholy….