Mistletoe

Album: Christmas In The Sand (2007)
Charted: 75
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Songfacts®:

  • Colbie Caillat wrote this song, in which she laments an absent lover over the festive period, with friend and former manager Stacy Blue and her then husband Mikal Blue.
  • The song was released as a digital download single to iTunes on November 20, 2007 and was the most downloaded holiday song of 2007.
  • This featured on the compilation disk The Essential Now That's What I Call Christmas, which was released in September 2008.
  • The song was included on the soundtrack of the 2008 film Baby Mama.
  • In 2012, the song was re-recorded by Colbie's father, Ken Caillat, and re-released on the singer's holiday album Christmas In The Sand.

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