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I'll Be Home for Christmas
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Title:
I'll Be Home for Christmas
NFSA ID
782667
Year
1943
Printed glass slide featuring the lyrics the song I'll Be Home for Christmas (If Only in my Dreams). This slide would have been used for cinema audience sing-alongs, which occurred before the feature and at intervals during the night's screenings. They would have also been used in churches or community gatherings or events.
I'll Be Home for Christmas (If Only in my Dreams) was first recorded in 1943 by American singer Bing Crosby. The lyrics are dedicated to the soldiers who wished they could be home for Christmas.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.