Bu, buttt.... I got that straight off the OFFICIAL jingle bells sight. <GRIN>

Q: What is the difference between the Internet, and the network news?
A: Some times the news accidentally gets it correct.


Jim King wrote:
> graywolf wrote on Mon, 21 May 2007 19:35:57 -0700
> 
>> I just came across a site on the web that says that Jingle Bells  
>> was originally
>> written as a Thanksgiving Day song. Must have been cooler back in  
>> 1857.
>> Strangely I do not remember this verse from school,
>>
>>> 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
>>> We got into a drifted bank
>>> And then we got upsot
> 
> You don't remember it because it probably had not yet been written.   
> This verse was written 20 years ago for the movie "Funny Girl" and  
> the name should read Fanny Brice, the protagonist  played by Barbra  
> Streisand.
> 
> Don't believe much of what you read on the Internet...  (but you  
> already knew that).
> 
> Regards, Jim
> 

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