Anita Baker

Released: October 4, 2005

Songwriter: Buck Ram Kim Gannon Walter Kent

Producer: Barry Eastmond Anita Baker

[Verse 1]
I'll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents under the tree for me, baby... [Scatting]
Ooh, Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love-light gleams
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams
Baby, in my dreams
Ooh baby, dreams, oh dreams
Oh, sweet dreams...

[Instrumental break]
[Scatting]

[Verse 2]
I'll be home for Christmas, so darling
You can count on me
Please have some grits, some black eyed peas
And a cup of milk for you and for me
Oh, Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
Ooh, I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams
Only in my dreams
If only, only in my dreams
In my dreams
In my dreams...

Anita Baker is a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter known for her distinct low contralto vocals. She started out in the band Chapter 8, which had the hit song “I Just Wanna Be Your Girl” that was later sampled by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony for their hit song “1st of tha Month.” “Anita” went on to become a big name in ‘80s R&B alongside “Luther” and “Whitney” as she began to rack up #1 hits.

Her debut album, The Songstress, was released in 1983 on independent label Beverly Glen and featured the hit song “Angel.” She left Beverly Glen and signed with Elektra Records, releasing her second album Rapture in 1986, which went on to sell over 5 million albums and peaked at #1 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart thanks to the hits “Sweet Love,” “Same Ole Love,” and “Caught Up in the Rapture.”

Her third album, Giving You the Best That I Got, was released in 1988 and hit #1 on the Billboard 200, and the title track hit #1 on both the Billboard R&B and Adult Contemporary Singles charts. Rapture and Giving You the Best That I Got accounted for five of her eight Grammy Awards, with her sixth in that time frame coming from her gospel collaboration with The Winans on the song “Ain’t No Need To Worry” in 1988.

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