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"Jingle Bells", originally "One Horse Open Sleigh", is one of the best known and commonly sung secular Christmas songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822-1893) in 1857 or before. The song has been translated into many languages as well.

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Various stories of the song's origins give the place of composition as Savannah, Georgia, Boston or Medford, Massachusetts.[1] An oft-repeated story is that he wrote it to be sung at a Thanksgiving program at his church in Savannah or Boston, and because of its instant popularity, it was repeated at the Christmas program. The copyright was granted in 1857, and at that time Pierpont was serving as the organist for a Unitarian congregation in Savannah.

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As originally published in 1857,[2] Pierpont's song had a different chorus melody, which was more classical, even Mozart-like. The 1857 lyrics differed slightly from those we know today. (The original words are given below in square brackets.) It is unknown who replaced the chorus melody and the words with those of the modern version.

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'Jingle Bells', one of the most famous American Christmas songs, was originally written for Thanksgiving! The author and composer of 'Jingle Bells' was a minister called James Pierpoint who composed the song in 1857 for children celebrating his Boston Sunday School Thanksgiving. The song was so popular that it was repeated at Christmas.

'Jingle Bells', originally 'One Horse Open Sleigh', is one of the best known and commonly sung secular Christmas songs in the world. The song has been translated into many languages as well.

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James Lord Pierpont (1822-1893) wrote the song in 1857.
The said song was originally titled "One Horse open Sleigh" meant for a Thanksgiving program at a church in Savannah, Georgia where Pierpont was organist. The song was so well accepted that it was again sung on Christmas Day and since then became one of the most popular Christmas carols.

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"Jinglebells" is one of the best-known songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont in 1857. The original title was "One Horse Open Sleigh" and was written not as a Christmas song, but as a song describing the popular sleigh races of the time.

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a giant golden banana sang it in the heavens as it danced to the cha cha

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The traditional carol "Jingle Bells" and the 1950's classic "Rock Around the Clock" inspired the lyrics to the carol "Jingle Bell Rock".

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One Horse Open Sleigh.

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Its a classical

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James pierpoint

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