I'll be home for Christmas - Walter Kent & James "Kim" Gannon

Translated into ASL by David Bar-Tzur

Created 7 December 2005, links updated monthly with the help of LinkAlarm.

EXPLANATION OF THE GLOSSING SYSTEM
(to understand how I describe the signs in this translation).

ME VISIT HOME DURING CHRISTMAS.
YOU DEPEND-ON-me ME CAN.
PLEASE HAVE SNOW
HAVE BERRY HOLD-berry-OVER-head KISS-person.
NEED PRESENT UNDER TREE SET-IN-CIRCLE.
CHRISTMAS E-V-E ME VISIT.
ENJOY L-O-V-E SHINE-DOWN INSPIRED.
ME VISIT HOME DURING CHRISTMAS.
BUT MAYBE ONLY DREAM.
CHRISTMAS E-V-E ME VISIT.
ENJOY L-O-V-E SHINE-DOWN INSPIRED.
ME VISIT HOME DURING CHRISTMAS.
||: BUT MAYBE ONLY DREAM. :||


Notes: ME - Underlined prounouns (ME</>, YOU</>, HE) are honorific index (HON.-IX), using the FT of the upturned palm to indicate who is being honored.

PRESENT - (2h)[X], POs ><, FOs up, nod downwards at wrist to show that something is given as a gift.

BERRY HOLD-berry-OVER-head KISS-person - [O] twists FT against FT of NDH [1], then [F] dangles the mistletoe over the head of someone with the NDH and with the NDH left in place the DH touches [O^] to lips and then to the lips of the imaginary person in front of her/him.

SET-IN-CIRCLE - [A dot], PO > NDS, FO away, set the gifts in a circle under the tree.

SHINE-DOWN - [O^] is held high PO > signer; hands open to [5^] while moving > signer.

The signs between "||:" and ":||" are to be repeated.

Lyrics:

I'll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please have snow
And mistletoe
And presents 'neath the tree
Christmas eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams

Christmas eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams
If only in my dreams

treble clef as a symbol for musicTo hear the music (without words), go to Christmas-Carols.net: I'll be home for Christmas.

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