Grown-Up Christmas List

"Grown-Up Christmas List"
Single by Amy Grant
from the album Home for Christmas
Released1992 (U.S.)
Recorded1992
GenrePop, Christmas
Length
  • 3:44 (edit)
  • 5:00 (album)
LabelA&M, Word
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Brown Bannister
Amy Grant singles chronology
"Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)"
(1992)
"Grown-Up Christmas List"
(1992)
"Let the Season Take Wing"
(1992)
Music video
"Grown-Up Christmas List" on YouTube

"Grown-Up Christmas List" (sometimes titled "My Grown-Up Christmas List") is a Christmas song written by David Foster (music) and Linda Thompson-Jenner (lyrics). Originally written by Foster for the 1989 CBC Christmas program A David Foster Christmas Card, the song was recorded as a duet with David Foster and Natalie Cole. In 1990, a Cole-only version of the song appeared on David Foster's River of Love album. The song was planned to be released as a single, but only a very small number of copies were sold in a limited region. In 1992, Amy Grant recorded the first cover version of the song for her second Christmas album Home for Christmas. This was the beginning of a series of cover versions by many artists, and it has become a standard Christmas song in the 21st century. It is one of Foster's most widely sung songs.