Jingle Bells

(a.k.a. "One Horse Open sleigh")

Words & Music:

James Lord Pierpont (1857, Boston)

 

C                                             F

Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh,

                   G7                   C

O'er the fields we go, laughing all the way,

C                                      F

Bells on bobtails ring, making spirits bright,

                  G7                               C

What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight, oh

 

CHORUS:

C                                          C7

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,

F              C               D7             G7      

Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh, hey,

C                                          C7

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,

F              C               G7             C

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;

He got into a drifted bank, and we, we got upsot.

 

CHORUS:

 

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 as there I sprawling lie, but quickly drove away.

 

CHORUS:

 

Now the ground is white, go it while you're young,

Take the girls tonight and sing this sleighing song;

Just get a bob-tailed bay, two-forty as his speed

Hitch him to an open sleigh and - crack! - you'll take the lead.

 

The provenance of the attached easy arrangement of this is unknown.  It is part of a collection that people gave me over the years.  Please inform me if correctly attribute it.