WHITE CHRISTMAS
Bing Crosby
- words and music by Irving Berlin
- from Irving Berlin's "Holiday Inn", a 1942 Paramount Picture
  starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Marjorie Reynolds
- "White Christmas" is widely regarded as the best-selling single
  of all time. It was #1 for 11 weeks in 1942 and returned to #1
  in 1945 and 1946. It has made the chart in every Christmas
  season but one from 1942 to 1962. Its success inspired the 1954
  movie "White Christmas", starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and
  Rosemary Clooney.
- lyrics as recorded by Bing Crosby in 1942

{Note: the following introductory verse was not included on the
 Bing Crosby recording but is on the sheet music}
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   The sun is shining, the grass is green
   The orange and palm trees sway
   There's never been such a day in Beverly Hills, L.A.
   But it's December the twenty-fourth
   And I am longing to be up north
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I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
"May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white"

(I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
 Just like the ones I used to know
 Where the treetops glisten
 And children listen
 To hear sleigh bells in the snow)

(I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
 With every Christmas card I write
 "May your days be merry and bright")

"And may all your Christmases be white"

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