'Jingle Bells' was originally a Thanksgiving song

26 Jun 2021

‘Jingle Bells’ was originally a Thanksgiving song

‘Jingle Bells’ was originally a Thanksgiving song'Jingle Bells' is a popular Christmas song. It was originally called 'The One Horse Open Sleigh', written in 1857 by a musician named James Pierpont. The story goes that, the song was first performed during a school concert in Savannah, Georgia. But this was not during Christmas. Instead, it was the Thanksgiving holiday.

If you listen to the lyrics of the original 1857 song carefully, you can understand that there is fun, snow, and celebration in it. But there is nothing about Christmas. So, 'Jingle Bells' wasn't originally a Christmas song.

However, the song became so famous that the church insisted to perform it at Christmas. As it became more popular, it became permanently linked with Christmas.

The song we know today has different lyrics. But, nobody knows who replaced the old words with the new ones.
Broadcast from space
Nine days before Christmas in 1965, the two astronauts aboard the NASA spacecraft Gemini 6 were reporting to their mission control on Earth. Suddenly, the two of them suddenly said they were seeing a UFO (unidentified flying object) like a satellite going from north to south. Then suddenly, the UFO started playing 'Jingle Bells'. It turns out that it was a prank they were playing on everyone. So, that's how 'Jingle Bells' was played in space.

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