A day or two ago, I thought I'd take a ride, And soon Miss Fanny Bright, Was seated by my side

[YuletidePaps]

Two things

• Jingle Bells is one crazy song - we got upsot?? Is that an old word for being stuck!?

• and think I found Franny a xmas name if she wants to come claim it... MissFrannyBright

???

Dashing through the snow
On a one-horse open sleigh,
Over the fields we go,
Laughing all the way;
Bells on bob-tail ring,
Making spirits bright,
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh

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;
He got into a drifted bank,
And we, we got upsot.
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Jingle all the way!
What fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.

A day or two ago,
The story I must tell
I went out on the snow
And on my back I fell;
A gent was riding by
In a one-horse open sleigh,
He laughed as there
I sprawling lie,
But quickly drove away.
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Jingle all the way!
What fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.

Now the ground is white
Go it while you're young,
Take the girls tonight
And sing this sleighing song;
Just get a bob-tailed bay
Two-forty as his speed
Hitch him to an open sleigh
And crack! you'll take the lead.
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Jingle all the way!
What fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.

So if I read this right - a one horse open sleigh is a babe magnet

No, it's a fanny magnet.

I'm just more subtle

a BRIGHT fanny?

Fanny Bright i stupendous

(sounds like a brand of femfresh, accorsding to DH who clearly has been spending too long in the feminine hygiene section of Boots )

so upsot is get down and dirty? As in...

Go it while you're young,
Take the girls tonight

very rude xmas song - we were all slightly at playgroup. No wonder people stick to the first verse and forget the rest!

So thats why we only do one verse

pmsl, had no idea of the other verses

Is upsot the past tense of 'upset' i.e. the sleigh got turned over?

here we go

Upsot appears in two 19th century poems which indicate that it means "turned over" (upset physically).

so that bit has been cleaned up