

Previous local history narratives claim the song was inspired by the town's popular sleigh races during the 19th century. A plaque at 19 High Street in the center of Medford Square in Medford, Massachusetts, commemorates the "birthplace" of "Jingle Bells", and claims that Pierpont wrote the song there in 1850, at what was then the Simpson Tavern. It is an unsettled question where and when Pierpont originally composed the song that would become known as "Jingle Bells". "Jingle Bells" in order to deter them from running for the freedom. Pierpont, a supporter of the Confederacy, dedicated the song to John Ordway, an organizer of a minstrel blackface troupe called Ordway's Aeolians.Īlso during 1857, some slaves were forced to wear Morgan, wrote "One Horse Open Sleigh" in 1857 and claimed to be a drinking song (it was always performed in blackface) It didn't become a Christmas song until decades after it was first performed on Washington Street. James Lord Pierpont who was the uncle of JP Second half of the chorus and other verses It was first recorded in 1889 on an Edison cylinder this recording, believed to be the first Christmas record, is lost, but an 1898 recording also from Edison Records survives. Although it has no original connection to Christmas, it became associated with winter and Christmas music in the 1860s and 1870s, and it was featured in a variety of parlor song and college anthologies in the 1880s. It has been claimed that it was originally written to be sung by a Sunday school choir for Thanksgiving, or as a drinking song.


It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) and published under the title " The One Horse Open Sleigh" in September 1857. " Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and most commonly sung American songs in the world. Originally titled as "The One Horse Open Sleigh" September 16, 1857, by Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston If you want to add your own song lyrics to our site related to Easter Songs, please contact us.Title page of "The One Horse Open Sleigh"

Here is the list of Tamil Christian Easter Songs with lyrics and their chords.
