After listening to some of my other arrangements, my mom said to me one day, "Why don't you try some Christmas tunes?" I said, "Why not?" So I figured it was best to begin with an easy one: Jingle Bells. This is arranged for just vibraphone and piano, however, but it lasts as long as it does because I wanted to include the verses as well as the chorus. It therefore begins with the chorus twice, and then transitions into a verse, followed by the chorus.
The song actually has no connections with Christmas originally, and yet it became a Christmas tune over the years.
This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music is now public domain, but composed by James Lord Pierpont.
If you wish to sing along, here are the lyrics:
CHORUS: Jingle bells, jingle bells!
Jingle all the way
O, what fun, it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh! (HEY!)
(sing this twice; the "HEY!" isn't sung the second time, though)
Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bob tail ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight!
(CHORUS)
A 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 then we got upsot (upset)
(CHORUS)
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 as his speed
Then hitch him to an open sleigh
And, crack! You'll take the lead!
(CHORUS)
The song actually has no connections with Christmas originally, and yet it became a Christmas tune over the years.
This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music is now public domain, but composed by James Lord Pierpont.
If you wish to sing along, here are the lyrics:
CHORUS: Jingle bells, jingle bells!
Jingle all the way
O, what fun, it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh! (HEY!)
(sing this twice; the "HEY!" isn't sung the second time, though)
Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bob tail ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight!
(CHORUS)
A 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 then we got upsot (upset)
(CHORUS)
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 as his speed
Then hitch him to an open sleigh
And, crack! You'll take the lead!
(CHORUS)
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