Hayley Caronia

The original lyrics theme of laughing all the way likely references a racist comedic routine known as the laughing darky.

Piermont's other minstrel works like Kitty Crow and the Colored Coquette repeatedly refer.

This is I'm reading this and it's very far away.

So this is why I'm like squinting.

I told them earlier.

I was like, oh, yeah, I can read this.

It's totally fine.

Refer to black people as the N-word and darkies.

And then it says then came the Civil War.

Piermont abandoned his family who were northern abolitionists and enlisted in the Confederate Army.

And then he wrote this racist song, I guess.

And it's now over the time it's been whitewashed.

And now there's happy myths about its creation and how it became popular.

Okay.

I mean, the lyrics literally are Jingle Bells, Jingle Bell, Jingle all the way.

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

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bell, 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.

They should have kept that name.