This is number 2 in the series of articles on Christmas songs.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got a lot of responses. Thank you one and all.\u00a0 I\u2019ll try to include one from everyone.<\/p>\n
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This week, I\u2019m incorporating Christmas Carols as well as songs in general because you sent in a lot of requests for them.\u00a0 I\u2019m also taking some old classics that some artists have put their own twist on.<\/p>\n
So here goes.\u00a0 But before that Paddy Englishman, Paddy Irishman and Paddy Scotsman all died on Christmas Eve and were met by Saint Peter at the pearly gates. ‘In honour of this Holy season, you must each possess something that symbolises Christmas to get into heaven.’ Saint Peter said.<\/p>\n
Paddy Englishman fumbled through his pockets and pulled out a lighter. He flicked it on. ‘It’s a candle’, he said. ‘You may pass through the pearly gates’ Saint Peter said.<\/p>\n
Paddy Scotsman reached into his pocket and pulled out a set of keys. He shook them and said, ‘They’re bells.’ Saint Peter said ‘You may pass through the pearly gates’.<\/p>\n
Paddy Irishman started searching desperately through his pockets and finally pulled out a pair of women’s panties. St. Peter looked at the man with a raised eyebrow and asked, ‘And just what do those symbolise?’ Paddy Irishman replied, ‘These are Carol’s.’<\/p>\n
First up, it\u2019s one that is so obvious I forgot about it.\u00a0 It\u2019s\u00a0Jingle Bells<\/em>, suggested by Dick in Cincinnati.\u00a0 Did you know that it was written in 1850 as a winter song, not a Christmas Song, by James Lord Pierpont and called \u2018One Horse Open Sleigh\u2019<\/em>.\u00a0 It was written in Medford Massachusetts in the Simpson Tavern (I didn\u2019t know the Simpsons were around then!). In 1857 it was copyrighted and revised in 1859 as \u2018Jingle Bells\u2019<\/em>\u00a0and has since passed into the public domain.<\/p>\n\n\n
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