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You ever wonder why that one line doesn't rhyme? Or is that just me?

 

Dashing through the snow

In a one horse open sleigh

O'er the fields we go

Laughing all the way

 

That verse rhymes

 

Bells on bobtail ring

Making spirits bright

What fun it is to ride and sing

A sleighing song tonight

 

That one rhymes too

 

 

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 was his lot

We got into a drifted bank

And we, we got upsot

 

That last verse rhymes

 

But the third one - ago and Bright?

 

I was thinking about this a few months ago, and researched the song. Thought that maybe I was misremembering the lyrics. But according to everything I could find, those were the original lyrics.

 

He could have written something like

 

But then last Friday night

And soon Miss Fanny Bright

 

Or maybe

 

A day or two ago

And soon my best girl Jo

 

 

Just don't make no sense

 

 

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Quite possibly. But when someone writes a poem, and all the verses rhyme except one, and I (an extremely poet) can easily rhyme the odd verse, it makes me wonder.

 

There's another one. I WANT A HIPPOPOTAMUS FOR CHRISTMAS.  I have sung that song for many years. One verse goes NO CROCODILES . NO RHINOCEROSES. I ONLY LIKE HIPPOPOTAMUSES. I have always sang I ONLY SMILE FOR HIPPOPOTAMUSES. Just fits the rhyme scheme better.

 

And on the subject of hippopotamuses, I always thought this was either a grown woman, or possibly a boy kid about 14 or 15. 10-year-old girl.

 

 

 

 

Some zoo in the Midwest (Kansas City?) had a contest. Get the kids to send in their pennies and nickels and buy Gayla a hippopotamus. They got two grand (in 1953 money) and bought a baby hippo named Matilda and gave it to her. She donated it back to the zoo, where it lived for 45 years and had nine baby hippos. Then they was moving it to some Disney thing and she had a heart attack and died. Poor Matilda.

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Guess y'all hadn't heard Jingle bells is a racist song and now banned in certain eastern schools.

Oh howdy, some folks got to stay up night just to figure out these things.

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