Album: Bing Crosby Christmas (1857)

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• Jingle bells, jingle bells
  Jingle all the way
  Oh, what fun it is to ride
  In a one horse open sleigh
  Jingle bells, jingle bells
  Jingle all the way
  What fun to ride and sing
  In a one horse open sleigh
  
  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, j-jingle bells
  Jingle all the way
  Oh, what fun it is to ride
  In a one horse open sleigh
  Bubba-dubba-dup-ruh
  Jingle bells, j-j-j-jingle bells
  Jingle all the way
  Oh, what fun it is to ride
  In a one horse open sleigh
  
  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
  Oh, what fun 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 (oh, we have a lot of fun)
  Jingle bells, jingle bells
  Jingle all the way
  Oh, what fun it is to ride
  In a one horse open sleigh
  
  Jingle bells, jingle bells
  Jingle all the way
  Oh, what fun it is to ride
  In a one horse open sleigh
  Jingle bells, jingle bells
  Jingle all the way
  Oh, what fun it is to ride
  In a one horse open sleigh Writer/s: BUDDY CANNON, James Lord Pierpont, Willie Nelson
  Publisher: O/B/O DistroKid, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• McswanJames Lord Pierpont, the writer of Jingle Bells, is often incorrectly referred to as "James S. Pierpont"
• Kevin from Salt Lake City, UtBarbra Streisand's "Jingle Bells" (with a decidedly jazz/triplet feel and an original verse) has become a new standard arrangement copied or quoted by a number of artists including Straight No Chaser, Barry Manilow, and Pentatonix.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn November 11, 1960, Santo and Johnny performed "Twistin' Bells" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'...
  One month later on December 19th the song entered Billboard's Top 100 chart at position #78, the following week it was at #61, and then on it's third and final week on the chart it peaked at #49...
  Between 1959 and 1964 the Brooklyn, NY brothers had six records on the Top 100 chart, one made the Top 10 and it reached #1, "Sleep Walk", for two weeks on September 21st, 1959...
  And from the 'For What It's Worth" department; seems this was the era of the instrumentals, the week "Twistin' Bells" peaked at #49 there were fourteen other instrumentals on the Top 100 at the time, "Wonderland By Night" by Bert Kaempfert {#2}, "Last Date" by Floyd Cramer {#3}, "Exodus" by Ferrante & Teicher {#4}, "Wonderland By Night" by Louis Prima {#16}, "Perfidia" by the Ventures {#17}, "Calcutta" by Lawrence Welk {#22}, "Blue Tango" by Bill Black's Combo {#26}, "Gonzo" by James Booker {#43}, "Last Date" by Lawrence Welk {#55}, "Magnificent Seven" by Al Caiola {#58}, "(Let's Do) the Hully Gully" by Bill Doggett {#58}, "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" by Jerry Murad's Harmonicats {#70}, "Pepe" by Duane Eddy {#74}, and "Wabash Blues" by the Viscounts {#89}.
• Terry from Willmar, MnPierpont was writing about what teenage boys like to do: race and scare girls. The song is simply about boys getting the fastest sleigh (the cutter or one horse open sleigh), the fastest horse, and then race each other. And if they're lucky, get a girl to sit next to them, go around corners fast, and then listen to the girls scream while they snuggle up and hold onto the boy's arm.
• Mary from Phoenix, AzI love Bing Crosby's version. Makes ya wanna dance!

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