====== #250 - Jingle Bells ======
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/*-20note-*//*-christmas-*/
  *Composer:
    *James Lord Pierpont (1822-1893), 1857
  *Also known as:
    *One Horse Open Sleigh
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
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.\\
\\
//chorus: //\\
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.\\
\\
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.\\
\\
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    *James Lord Pierpont (1822-1893), 1857