I think that Jingle Bells is the mostly heard song during this season!
According to Wikipedia, it was composed by James Lord Pierpont, originally copyrighted as "One horse open sleigh" in 1857.
Original Lyrics:
- Dashing through the snow
- In a one-horse open sleigh
- O'er the hills we go
- Laughing all the way.
- Bells on bobtail ring
- Making spirits bright
- Oh what sport to ride and sing
- A sleighing song tonight.
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- Jingle bells, jingle bells
- Jingle all the way!
- O what joy it is to ride
- In a one-horse open sleigh.
- A day or two ago
- I thought I'd take a ride
- And soon Miss Fannie 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.
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- A day or two ago
- The story I must tell
- I went out on the snow
- And on my back I fell;
- A gent was riding by
- In a one-horse open sleigh,
- He laughed as there I sprawling lie,
- But quickly drove away,
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- Now the ground is white
- Go it while you're young,
- Take the girls tonight
- And sing this sleighing song:
- Just get a bobtailed bay
- Two forty is his speed
- Hitch him to an open sleigh
- And crack! You'll take the lead.
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