The fire is dying and the couple is still, er, “good-bye-ing.” Then, like in the movies, there’s sort of a fade to a later time in the lyrics. He also mentions he’d brought some popcorn they didn’t get around to eating yet, and the fire is so delightful, and the lights are turned down low, and…Īnd, the girl buys his snow job. He suggests to the girl that he’d hate to go out into the storm right at that moment, but if she’d just hold him tight for a while he’d be warm all the way home.

He seems to see the weather as a stroke of luck and is happy to “let it snow.” The lyrics are written from the guy’s point of view. Gosh darnit! I t’s snowing too hard for him to travel safely. However, when it’s time for him to leave, “the weather is frightful.” Since it was the era of PG lyrics, the guy is not expecting to stay for the night. It’s actually a romantic, somewhat corny love song about a guy who is visiting his girlfriend during the winter in some unnamed location. “Let It Snow” is common on Christmas cards and in Christmas-related internet posts.īut, in fact, there’s no reference to Christmas or the holiday season in the lyrics and it wasn’t intended to be Christmas song. Nowadays, many people think it’s a traditional Christmas song. In the decades since then, “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” has been recorded by countless other singers and bands. Monroe’s version of the song quickly became a huge hit, making it to Billboard’s number one spot on January 26, 1946. The music was by Cahn’s songwriting partner at the time, Jule Styne. The words were written by lyricist Sammy Cahn. On Decemhis 78 RPM recording of that song entered the Billboard “Best Sellers in Stores” chart (a precursor of Billboard’s Top 40 and Hot 100 charts). It was launched into our holiday lexicon in December 1945, when singer and big band leader Vaughn Monroe released the first recording of “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” Every year at Christmas time, when I hear someone sing or say “Let It Snow!” I am reminded of what I learned when I looked into the song that popularized that phrase.

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