Jingle bells lyrics include ‘Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh
Over 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’
It is a song about snow and a sleigh and the bells on the sleigh.
It was written by James Lord Pierpont and published under the title “The One Horse Open Sleigh” in the autumn of 1857.
There were no slaves in New York after 1799. It was a free state. So 150 years ago in NY there were no slaves and it was written about sleighing, and the sleighs had bells.
Does no one do research before knocking off things?
Jingle Bells was also written for Thanksgiving, but that issue apparently didn’t come up.
Thanks.. I always associated Jingle Bells, to the HORSES.. and Sleigh Bells in the snow. I wonder if we keep looking maybe we could offend someone else and ban.. SILENT NIGHT. It as about a Fat (ROUND) young virgen!!!!
“Does no one do research before knocking off things?”
Right. The current people connected to education at any level are simply the dumbest people ever to abide in this country. Yes I do have a Master’s but I also read. I’m from another generation. I’ve been singing Jingo Bells all my life.