====== Jingle Bells ======

===== Lyrics =====

1. Dashing through the snow, In a one-horse open sleigh\\
O'er the fields we go, Laughing all the way\\
Bells on bob tail ring, Making spirits bright\\
What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight!

**Chorus** \\
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way.\\
Oh! what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.\\
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way;\\
Oh! what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.

2. A day or two ago I thought I'd take a ride\\
And soon, Miss Fanny Bright was seated by my side,\\
The horse was lean and lank, Misfortune seemed his lot\\
He got into a drifted bank and then we got upsot.

3. A day or two ago, the story I must tell\\
I went out on the snow, and on my back I fell;\\
A gent was riding by in a one-horse open sleigh,\\
He laughed as there I sprawling lie, but quickly drove away.

4. Now the ground is white, Go it while you're young,\\
Take the girls tonight and sing this sleighing song;\\
Just get a bobtailed bay, Two forty as his speed\\
Hitch him to an open sleigh and crack! you'll take the lead.

**By:** James Lord Pierpont
==== Music & Performance ====

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[[https://musescore.com/user/30522520/scores/5343914|Source]]

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===== Background =====

**Origin:** United States of America\\
**First Published:** 1857
===== More Information =====

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_Bells|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_Bells]]