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Jingle All the Way
I watched the world go rolling by
Safe behind my window pane
Mountains waited, rivers called
While I stayed inside the same
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
One horse and an open sleigh
Through life every day
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Let your whole life ring
Move into the world God made
And see what movement brings
I took the reins and crossed the fields
Met the forest, wind and rain
Strangers crossed my open road
And every turn revealed a way
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
One horse and an open sleigh
Through life every day
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Let your whole life ring
Move into the world God made
And see what movement brings
A chance hello became a friend
A wrong turn found a better way
Doors appeared because I moved
And luck was waiting on the way
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
One horse and an open sleigh
Through life every day
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Let your whole life ring
Move into the world God made
And see what movement brings
I watched the world while standing still
I took the reins and crossed the way
Each turn brought people, chance and change
Jingle bells, jingle all the way
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
One horse and an open sleigh
Through life every day
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Let your whole life ring
Move into the world God made
And see what movement brings
ABOUT THIS SONG
Written and produced by Tasmanian songwriter Jason Bresnehan, Jingle All the Way is a musical arrangement in the pop genre with a female vocal. The song reimagines the familiar Christmas image of travelling in a one-horse open sleigh as a metaphor for moving through life, engaging with the world God created rather than watching it pass from behind a window.
The lyrics follow a progression from standing still to taking the reins and moving into life. Mountains, rivers, forests, weather, strangers and unexpected turns represent the people, places and experiences encountered through movement. Chance meetings become friendships, wrong turns create new possibilities and doors appear because the person was moving when opportunity arrived. The one-horse open sleigh represents the individual journey: each person is uniquely created by God and travels a path that belongs to that person. “Jingle all the way” therefore becomes both a Christmas refrain and a call to keep moving, creating the collisions with life through which friendship, opportunity, change and what we sometimes call luck can emerge.
The artwork depicts a single horse-drawn sleigh travelling through a snow-covered town surrounded by people, animals, mountains, buildings and a river. Rather than travelling through an empty landscape, the sleigh moves directly through a world filled with life, reflecting the song’s central idea that movement creates encounters and possibilities.
This song forms part of the Merry Christmas Collection by Seventh Ribbon Music.
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