https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFGfCn5rKIM Sample lyric: "Christmas Eve will find me where the love light gleams. I'll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams." Kicking off the list with a festive standard, here's a song that has appeared on countless artists' Christmas albums despite struggling ever to be recorded in the first place for its depressing content. In the midst of the Second World War, lyricist Kim Gannon's lines about only being able to come home for Christmas in your dreams were felt to be too upsetting for families with soldiers overseas. As a result the song was repeatedly rejected by those in the music industry. Bing Crosby has done more than anyone to establish the seasonal song as an enduring concept. (Hell, White Christmas is literally the most successful song of all time). So, thanks to the fact that he and Gannon were golf buddies, I'll Be Home For Christmas not only got recorded but became a hit. Ironically, the same lyric that had got those in the industry worried about the song's impact on soldiers and their families was precisely what made them embrace it. Soldiers longing for home found Crosby's recording captured their feelings perfectly. It was still banned by the BBC, though, as a potential threat to morale and the lyric remains a bittersweet sentiment at best.