“Jingle Bells” is one of the most well-known and widely performed American songs. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) and published in the autumn of 1857 under the title “The One Horse Open Sleigh.” It’s been suggested that the song was composed for a Sunday school choir or as a drinking song.It became synonymous with Christmas music and the holiday season in the 1860s and 1870s, and it was used in a number of parlor song and college anthologies in the 1880s, despite having no original relation to Christmas. It was first recorded on an Edison cylinder in 1889; this recording, which is thought to be the first Christmas record, is lost, although an 1898 Edison Records recording survives.
E E E~
Jin gle bells,
E E E~
jin gle bells
E G C~ D E
Jin gle all the way
F~ FF F
Oh, what fun
F F E E
it is to ride
E E E D
In a one horse
D E D~ G ~~
open sleigh hey!
E E E~
Jin gle bells,
E E E~
jin gle bells
E G C~ D E
Jin gle all the way
F~ F F F
Oh, what fun
F F E E
it is to ride
E E G G
In a one horse
F D C
open sleigh
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Dashing through the snow
*G *G *G E
In a one horse
D C *A ~
open sleigh
*AF E D C *B
O’er the fields we go,
G G F D E
Or
A G F D E
laughing all the way
*G E D C *G
Bells on bob tail ring,
*G E D C *A
making spirits bright
*A *A F E D
What fun it is to
G G G
ride and sing
G A G F D C
A sleighing song tonight,
G~~
Hey
E E E~
Jin gle bells,
E E E~
jin gle bells
E G C~ D E
Jin gle all the way
F~ FF F
Oh, what fun
F F E E
it is to ride
E E E D
In a one horse
D E D~ G ~~
open sleigh hey!
E E E~
Jin gle bells,
E E E~
jin gle bells
E G C~ D E
Jin gle all the way
F~ F F F
Oh, what fun
F F E E
it is to ride
E E G G
In a one horse
F D C
open sleigh
