Lyrics to
Jingle Bells

Released by The Carpenters in 1978
From the Album: Christmas Portrait |

This version of Jingle Bells was released by The Carpenters in 1978.

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Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh
And o’er the fields we go laughing all the way.
The bells on bobtail ring making spirits bright.
What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight.

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh.

Day or two ago I thought I’d take a ride

And soon Miss Fanny Bright was seated by my side.
The horse was lean and lank, misfortune seemed his lot,
He got into a drifted bank and we, we got upsot.

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh.

Now the ground is white; go it while you’re young,
Take a ride tonight and sing this sleighing song.

Just get a bobtailed bay, two-forty for his speed;
Then hitch him to an open sleigh and crack you’ll take the lead.

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh.


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When you decide to study the lyrics to Jingle Bells, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by The Carpenters. Some of the lyrics to Jingle Bells have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Carpenters and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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You can understand the lyrics to Jingle Bells if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Jingle Bells" means the words set to the music of Jingle Bells, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Carpenters. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Jingle Bells and the lyrics to Jingle Bells are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Carpenters who came here looking just for the lyrics to Jingle Bells, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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