Enthusiasm for singing ‘Jingle Bells’ spans many decades
Of Cabbages and Kings
Last updated 12/13/2012 at 1:07pm
Jingle Bells has been noted as “One of the greatest hits of Christmas.”
James S. Pierpont wrote the song in 1840 as a Thanksgiving song for his father. The elder Piermont was a pastor in the Unitarian Church at Medford, Mass.
The younger Pierpont hadn’t started out to write a song. He had decided to take a break from writing one day and watch children coasting down a sled hill. They reminded him of racing horse-drawn sleds when he was a boy. Some lyrics came to his mind and he soon was humming a tune with “one horse open sleigh” in it. He visited a neighbor lady’s home and playe...
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