"Will Be Near to Us No More"

"'I often wondered what would it have been like if those lyrics had been sung in the movie,' laughs O'Brien, now 69. ''But about a week before we were to shoot the scene where Judy sings it to me, she looked at the lyrics and said, 'Don't you think these are awfully dark? I'm going to go to Hugh Martin and see if he can lighten it up a little.'"

In a 2007 Entertainment Weekly article, Chris Willman explains the lyrical evolution of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."