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I’ll Be Home for Christmas: Heartbreaking Christmas Song of All Ages
Christmas songs have been one of the primary elements of the Yuletide season. Although most of the holiday tracks are happy and joyful ones, there are sad Christmas songs that people would love to sing during the holidays. One most popular sad Christmas songs worldwide is “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”.
This heartbreaking song was first recorded by Bing Crosby in 1943 during the brink of the Second World War. It automatically entered the top ten of the record charts and succeeded in becoming a holiday musical tradition in most countries worldwide. The song soon became a standard song for expressing the feelings of people who will spend the holidays away from their loved ones. Actually, the idea of the song originated in the First World War when the soldiers thought that the war will be only quick and they will return during holiday season. Astronauts in space often request NASA to play this track to them during Christmas time.