# Jingle Bells from the original Italian...

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**Created:** [December 13, 2002, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jingle-bells-from-the-original-italian/142554 "2002-12-13T17:51:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jingle-bells-from-the-original-italian/142554/1 "2002-12-13T17:51:17Z")

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> Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh,  
> O’er the fields we go, laughing all the way.  
> Bells on bobtail ring, making spirits bright.  
> What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight.
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> Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!  
> Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh. Hey!  
> Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.  
> Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh.

from Italian…

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> To fall through the opened snow in a sleigh of a horse,  
> O’ er the fields we go, laughing all the sense.  
> Belhi on bobtail squillano, rendering alcoholic the luminous ones.  
> That divertimento must guide and songs this evening one song sleighing.
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> The OH, flange of jingle, flange of jingle, jingle all the sense!  
> The OH that divertimento must guide in one sleigh open of a horse. Hey!  
> Jingle the flange, flange of jingle, jingle all the sense.  
> The OH that divertimento must guide in one sleigh open of a horse.

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**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jingle-bells-from-the-original-italian/142554/2 "2002-12-13T17:52:39Z")

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whooopsie…this was a followup to Eve’s translation thread…Mods, a little help locking this down please?