Hayley Caronia
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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.
One horse open sleigh, the whole song.
Over the hills we go, laughing all the way.
Bells on bobtails ring, making spirits bright.
Oh, what fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight.
This was supposed to make fun of black people participating in winter activities.
I just don't really buy that.
It's not that I don't believe that, you know, this these kinds of shows went on.
I mean, they obviously did.
But I don't know.
Like every once in a while, a song goes viral.
A Christmas song goes viral.
It was, you know, written in the 30s or whatever.