James Lord Pierpont originally wrote “The One Horse Open Sleigh” in 1850 for his father’s Sunday school class Thanksgiving church service. He’d written the song while sitting at the Simpson Tavern in Medford, Massachusetts. The song was performed during Thanksgiving church services and in 1857, Pierpont copyrighted the song as “One Horse Open Sleigh.” That […]
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