Merry Christmas Darling
Words and music by Karen and Richard Carpenter
Greeting cards have all been sent
The Christmas rush is through
But I still have one wish to make
A special one for you
Merry Christmas darling
We're apart that's true
But I can dream and in my dreams
I'm Christmas-ing with you
Holidays are joyful
There's always something new
But every day's a holiday
When I'm near to you
The lights on my tree
I wish you could see
I wish it every day
Logs on the fire
Fill me with desire
To see you and to say
That I wish you Merry Christmas
Happy New Year, too
I've just one wish
On this Christmas Eve
I wish I were with you
Logs on the fire
Fill me with desire
To see you and to say
That I wish you Merry Christmas
Happy New Year, too
I've just one wish
On this Christmas Eve
I wish I were with you
I wish I were with you
I'll Be Home For Christmas
Written by James 'Kim' Gannon, composed by Walter Kent, and originally sung by Bing Crosby for our World War II soldiers
I'll be home for Christmas;
You can count on me.
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents on the tree.
Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love-light gleams.
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams.
And finally, my personal favorite...
Please Come Home For Christmas
Written by Charles Brown and composed by Gene Redd
Bells will be ringing this sad Christmas Eve,
Oh what a Christmas to have the blues.
My baby's gone, I have no friends
To wish me greetings once again.
Choirs will be singing Silent Night,
Christmas carols by candlelight.
Please come home for Christmas,
Please come home for Christmas,
If not for Christmas, by New Year's night.
Friends and relations send salutations.
Sure as the stars shine above;
But this is Christmas, yes Christmas, my dear,
The time of year to be with the ones you love.
So won't you tell me you'll never more roam,
Christmas and New Year's will find you home.
There'll be no more sorrow, no grief and pain,
And I'll be happy, happy once again.
Oh, there'll be no more sorrow, no grief and pain,
And I'll be happy, Christmas once again!
How ever long it takes, Diane and Charlie, come home for Christmas; and if not this Christmas, maybe next year - for you both will be 18 or over and not under the control of Richard and Shirley Rich. At the right time, I will come for you, or you can come home to me, where I will be your father and you will be my daughter and son.
If you come home to me, I will not want for anything more. There is not anything or any amount of money that will ever take the place of your love for me or my love for you. It is an emotion born of the heart that can never totally separate us, though the DCBS stole you from my heart and put many miles between us.
Diane and Charlie, it never gets any easier. I post this knowing crying because I know in my heart you will not be here. It never got any easier for me when preparing for the Home For The Holidays concert in Memphis. It will not get any easier when Karissa begins to play the Christmas music after Thanksgiving.
May God grant you the desire to return home to me, and to know and understand the truth about your mother and me, and why things came to their conclusion. At that time, you will understand that it was my desire to bring you home to me, but things were out of my hands and out of my control.
So come home for Christmas this year, and make my joy full beyond belief.
Merry Christmas, Diane and Charlie!
Love, Dad
