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Thanksgivi­ng Carol

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‘Jingle Bells’, one of the world’s best-loved Christmas carols, was actually written for Thanksgivi­ng. Originally titled ‘One-horse Open Sleigh’, it was created in the mid-19th century by James Pierpoint for his father’s Sunday school. The song proved so popular that the children asked to sing it again at Christmas and it has been deemed a festive song ever since.

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