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Hello everyone and welcome back to English pod. My name is Marco.

And my name is Catherine and it’s the holiday season.

That’s right it’s almost Christmas and so we are bringing you one of the most typical Christmas songs of Christmas carols, I guess in all over the world Probably.

That’s right. And I’ve heard it in many different languages, even Chinese.

Yeah, Chinese. Okay I have to ask. Yeah I have to ask. But yeah, we’re talking about jingle bells today so the famous song. Jingle bells you’ll hear it everywhere, especially during the Christmas season, I will only during the Christmas.

Spatial yeah. And so let’s listen to the song. The song is pretty long, it has like a couple of different verses, but we are taking the main one. The first one and the chorus which are like the most famous ones, and so let’s listen to the song.

Dashing through the snow

In a one horse open sleigh

O’er the fields we go

Laughing all the way

Bells on bob tails ring

Making spirits bright

What fun it is to laugh and sing

A sleighing song tonight

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh

jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh

This is going to be stuck in my head all day, Marco. I know. it’s kind of catchy. Can you get into spirit with the song.

Was you said Carol, a Christmas Carol is a song and there meant to be catchy. You Know, get them in your head and they stay there for ever.

I think it’s also because every mall or shopping center you go to their playing the song so they just get stuck in your head.

In the background of—

Yeah, exactly makes you want to shop more or kill someone. Alright, so there were probably a couple of different words that you didn’t understand here. So were going to go through the whole song. Little by little and will explain it. So starting out with the first light is dashing through the snow.

Well, okay, this is interesting because in sports. There’s an event called the hundred meter dash. OK so a dash is a very quick run, very fast right that’s right.

So dashing through the snow, you kind of running or going through the snow very quickly. Or we don’t know who is running to the snow but we know something or someone is going very quickly through the snow in the second line it says in a one horse open sleigh.

Okay so now we know who is dashing through the snow, it’s a horse is a horse in this and you’re in the sleigh.

Okay, so an open sleigh means that there’s no roof so you’re sitting under the stars. And there’s a horse pulling your sleigh through the snow.

Okay so sleigh is kind of like a vehicle for the snow right. There’s no wheels, ok? Because it’s it’s hard to drive in snow and so this is an old kind vehicle that has maybe wood or metal underneath to make it slide. To make it slide, very good.

Alright and then we have this strange word here it’s O’ ER, O’er the fields we go. O’er the fields we go. Well this is very, very common in poetry. Okay?

So this is a way to make the word over shorter because over you can hear it two syllables over but sometimes you only want one, we say O’er.

Okay O’er the fields we go. O’er means over. Okay. Interesting. Laughing all the way, Bells on bob tails ring. Now wonder Bob tails one of these bells and Bob tells.

Okay well bob tails are the details of certain animals, okay? So we could say we have a bunny rabbit with a bob tail that means the tail sticks up, but it’s also maybe reindeer have Bob tail their tails stick up, you can see them.

Okay so I guess in this case because it’s Christmas these animals like reindeer and rabbits have little bells on them that end up according to the next line making spirits bright. Right so you’re making people happy.

That’s right in spirit is here your attitude or your soul, and in this case, you make your you being made happy, you’re happy because it’s Christmas your outside.

Very good and well he says what fun it is to laugh and sing a sleighing song tonight. Now sleighing. We know that sleigh is this vehicle to go through snow but a sleighing song. I guess this—

Is a song we sing on were in a sleigh, so and this is a real word, but this is something that makes the song kind of makes you think that these people are just singing a special song for being in the sleigh.

Alight now we go to the chorus jingle bells jingle bells. So this word jingle, It’s a verb. Right?

Yeah, to jingle. We can do with your keys too. To jingle is to make noise when metal is touching metal so we have bells and they ding ding ding ding ding ding. I had some keys, usually with jingling so you like this.

Oh jingle. So the jingle your keys, Right?

Yeah, exactly. So You can use it with keys with bells and use with anything else, anything that makes a sound like that.

Chimes jingle. Ok, Chimes jingle, Ok, alright. Very good. So jingle all the way oh what fun it is to ride again in a one horse open sleigh.

Jingle bells, jingle bells jingle all the way. So all the way, maybe were going someplace., All the way were every going— home or to dinner.

And what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh so the course is not very hard, and neither is the first verse. But you know sometimes the song. The song is pretty fast so sometimes you don’t really understand what they’re saying. Personally, I did not know the lira of jingle bells until we started doing this— Really. Because only thing we mumble. You know you can’t hear all the words, so —

You don’t other words but dashing through the snow. Sometimes you have to think of it very clearly. Very good. So that’s all the words we have for this podcast since it’s a very good Christmas Carol. It’s very catchy and is I don’t know how old it is, I heard knowing I was small.

Well probably old enough to come from a time when there weren’t cars because this sleigh and will use or because I don’t see people use or anymore. Now I think it’s mostly just songs and poems. A lot in the 19th century.

Right and what is interesting also, I guess the relationship between like this, ladies and snow and why don’t Christmas is always related to this, even though you know in someplace you don’t have snow during Christmas.

That’s right, but it does anywhere here in Shanghai and we can hear people singing a song and there is no snow so I think it’s just it’s way to think about the season of Christmas and the attitude of people when it’s Christmas time.

Right so I hope you enjoyed our lesson. If you have any questions about this Christmas Carol. You can let us know an English pub.com and will also post the other versus the less known versus of jingle bells, because especially pretty long song.

Very long and I don’t know any of the other versus to be honest with me. That Exactly, We chose the first one and the chorus because the most popular one, so we’ll see you guys there and Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Bye.