John Smyths Releases Please Come Home for Christmas

Please Come Home for Christmas – Country Heart in Winter Lights

I already met John Smyths earlier this year with Now I’m Wiser, so hearing his own version of Please Come Home for Christmas feels a bit like running into an old friend in a crowded winter market. Same cowboy hat, same straight look in the eye, now wrapped in snow and fairy lights instead of bar-room neon.

The song comes from the Eagles, yet John treats it like a personal postcard. He cut the video in Germany with Camera House in Bernburg. His line about “just a great song to say Merry Christmas to everybody, even when someone sits alone that night” comes straight to my mind, while the bells and steel slide along.

From Nijmegen to winter cabins

Johan Smits, the man behind John Smyths, arrived on this planet in March 1961 in the old town of Nijmegen. Music came early through his parents and older brother.

After the wild years, country music took over: Conway Twitty, Hank Williams, Waylon Jennings, Kenny Rogers, Tammy Wynette. Moving to Germany, he started visiting studios, cutting covers of classic country tunes and three of his own songs, then hauling them on stage around Germany and Belgium.

Country soul with a rock spine

Long before the cowboy hat, John Smyths fed his teenage ears with Kiss, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, AC/DC. That rock spine still holds his country work.

The industry slowly caught up. Loving You Makes Me a Better Man picked up an award at the Red Carpet Show International in Europe, while Now I’m Wiser received a nomination for the Elite Music Awards. Stages keep adding up: Viechtach, Gerolstein, Stolberg, Wolfhagen, Nijmegen. With more festivals, duets and fresh singles already lining up for 2026.

From my side of the desk, this looks like a late-blooming career that keeps gathering branches. Love songs, reflective ballads like Last Night, and now a Christmas track with snow on its shoulders. I’m on it, John.

Christmas, loneliness, and a raised glass

Please Come Home for Christmas walks a thin line. The greeting sounds warm, the lyrics carry a lonely man in a room, waiting for a knock that may never come. John Smyths understands that balance, carrying a quiet drama, and I see this man as someone who already knows the answer.

Somewhere out there, somebody spends Christmas beside a cheap radio or a phone speaker, and this song becomes company for a few minutes. That’s a good gift, John.

So here is John Smyths, raising a glass from Germany and the Netherlands to anyone who needs a human voice this season. Follow John Smyths – the music, the stories, the road he’s walking: Facebook • Spotify • YouTube • TikTok