Good day, fellow Christmas lovers!
As I sit here writing this, “Winter” has officially left us. But Mother Nature sometimes has other ideas. It’s funny how many mornings in March I’ve awakened to a blanket of snow outside my bedroom window!
Makes me think of one of my favorite songs: “Jingle Bells”. Did you know that when Jingle Bells was written, way back in the 1850s, it was a song for Thanksgiving? A man by the name of James Lord Pierpont wrote the song, and he titled it “One Horse Open Sleigh”. I find it so interesting how things change over the years, don’t you?
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.