Our Sleigh Ride With Jack Frost | 1901 E. Smith

❄️☃️[Lyrics below] This song about the sleigh-ride with Jack Frost, with words by Rebecca B. Foreman set to a folk tune, was published in 1901:11 in "Second Book in Vocal Music" by Eleanor Smith; C.E. Richard Mueller, A.M. (https://archive.org/details/second-bo....

The illustration is from "Lorraine and the Little People" by Elizabeth Gordon, with illustrations by Marion T, (Penny) Ross (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i....

This is a tune with a large ambitus that spans more than an octave. So here's the crux of the problem, what key to choose? It all depends on what range you have. I chose A Major (three sharps), and got into a bit of trouble on both the lowest and the highest notes. I didn't practice, and that's maybe why ...

Here are the words:

O'er hill and o'er valley
We merrily go
The bells jingle loudly,
The world's white with snow.
There's somebody with us,
Jack Frost is his name,
He hunts ears and noses
And pinches the same.

But we do not mind him.
We laugh in his face;
Whene'er we go riding
We give him a place,
And if we go walking
Or out for a run,
Jack Frost is the fellow
That makes all the fun.

La la la ... repeat

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