Words with Silent Consonants

Practice

White Christmas

Fill in the lyrics of "White Christmas."
Each blank contains a word with a silent consonant.
[lyrics]

I'm dreaming of a ______________________ ___________________
Just like the ________________ I used to know
Where the treetops __________________ and children ____________________
To hear ______________________ bells in the snow.

I'm dreaming of a ________________ ___________________
With every ______________________ card I __________________
May your days be merry and ___________________
And may all your ______________________ be ___________________.

Irving Berlin, a Jewish immigrant, wrote one of America's favorite patriotic songs "God Bless America." He is equally famous for "White Christmas."

"White Christmas," a song of yearning for "the ones we used to know," was released during WWII. By the end of the war, the song was the biggest-selling single of all time. The song is still the best-selling Christmas record of all-time.

Whenever Bing Crosby, who made the song famous, sang for the troops, he was usually asked to sing "White Christmas," which would often bring tears to the eyes of many of the soldiers. Clearly the song had had an effect not anticipated by Berlin or Crosby as a result of the war.

Bing's "White Christmas" marked the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. There was a radio announcement that the temperature in Saigon was "105 degrees and rising," followed by Bing's "White Christmas." When people heard Bing's voice, Americans and Vietnamese went to the U.S. embassy, where helicopters were waiting.

The history of "White Christmas" comes from this website.