### JINGLE BELLS

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    (John Pierpont, 1859)

    Dashing through the snow
    In a one-horse open sleigh
    Through 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.

    cho: Jingle bells, jingle bells
         Jingle all the way,
         Oh what fun it is to ride
         In a one-horse open sleigh, O
         Jingle bells, jingle bells
         Jingle all the way,
         Oh what fun it is to ride
         In a one-horse open sleigh.
    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,
    We ran into a drifted bank
    And there we got upsot.

    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 at me as
    I there sprawling laid
    But quickly drove away.

    Now the ground is white,
    Go it while you're young,
    Take the girls along
    And sing this sleighing song.
    Just bet a bob-tailed bay,
    Two-forty as his speed,
    Hitch him to an open sleigh
    and crack! You'll take the lead.