Song: Jingle Bells

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Song: Jingle Bells

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1. Song: Jingle Bells

What was the original title of "Jingle Bells"?
For what holiday was "Jingle Bells" written?
How is the song related to church?

2. A one horse open sleigh

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3. Song: Jingle Bells

"Over the River and Through the Woods", written 1844, Lydia Marie Child, Medford, MA.

"One Horse Open Sleigh", written Thanksgiving, 1850, James Lord Pierpont in Medford, MA (perhaps at a pub).
Inspiration: Looking out the window at Thanksgiving (on Thursday) and needing a church song (for Sunday)
Pierpont later moved to Savannah, GA, where the song was published.

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4. Jingle Bells - verse

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!

Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way.
Oh! what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh.

(repeat once)

5. Inspiration

Jingle Bells was written by James Lord Pierpont in Salem in New England on a Thanksgiving day of 1840, inspired by sights seen looking out the window, and needing a church song (though critics today dispute that claim, saying it was too secular to be sung in a church).

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