Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones?
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 1 month 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 1 month agoJingle Bells was originally drinking song, not related to Christmas at all.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 month 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 1 month 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.