Jingle Bells ukulele chords and lyrics by James Lord Pierpoint. The chords in the song are G, C, Am, and D7.
“Jingle Bells” is one of the best-known and most commonly sung American songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) and published under the title “The One Horse Open Sleigh” in the autumn of 1857. It has been claimed that it was originally written to be sung by a Sunday school choir for Thanksgiving, or as a drinking song. Although it has no original connection to Christmas, it became associated with winter and Christmas music in the 1860s and 1870s, and it was featured in a variety of parlor song and college anthologies in the 1880s. It was first recorded in 1889 on an Edison cylinder; this recording, believed to be the first Christmas record, is lost, but an 1898 recording also from Edison Records survives.
Jingle Bells Ukulele Chords by James Lord Pierpont
VERSE
GDashing through the snow in a one-horse open Csleigh
AminO‘er the fields we D7go Laughing all the Gway
Bells on bobtails ring making spirits Cbright
What Aminfun it is to Dride and sing a D7sleighing song toGnight, oh!
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GJingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all Cthe Gway
COh, what fun it Gis to ride In a one-horse open D7sleigh, hey!
GJingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all Cthe Gway
COh what fun it Gis to ride in a D7one-horse open Gsleigh
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GA day or two ago I thought I’d take a Cride
And Aminsoon Miss Fanny D7Bright was seated by my Gside
GThe horse was lean and lank misfortune seemed his Clot
We Aminran into a Ddrifted bank and D7there we got Gupsot D7Oh!
REFRAIN
GJingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all Cthe Gway
COh, what fun it Gis to ride In a one-horse open D7sleigh, hey!
GJingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all Cthe Gway
COh what fun it Gis to ride in a D7one-horse open Gsleigh
COh what fun it Gis to ride in a D7one-horse open Gsleigh
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