ADVENT CALENDAR – DAY 16

No time to type today, so how about some musical sleigh-rides?

Here’s “Jingle Bells,” in its original version, as it was published in 1857 (as “The One Horse Open Sleigh”), by James Lord Pierpont:

And a rowdy sleigh-ride, courtesy of Leopold Mozart (father of Wolfgang), complete with horses, dogs, whip-cracks and sleigh-bells. The whole thing is worth hearing, but the fun really begins at 3:38.

It’s times like this that I really miss my morning air-shifts!

“The horse was lean and lank;
Misfortune seemed his lot,
He got into a drifted bank,
And we, we got upsot.”