Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones?
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 10 months agoJingle Bells was originally drinking song, not related to Christmas at all.
Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones?
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 10 months agoJingle Bells was originally drinking song, not related to Christmas at all.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Nope, it was written for a minstrel show, to mock black folks. The songwriter later moved south to join the confederacy.
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 10 months ago
At least according to Wikipedia, the original The One Horse Open Sleigh was possibly intended as a drinking song. That’s also what I heard from someone I know, so that’s what stuck with me.