The line that goes.."bells on bob tails ring making spirits high..." what does that mean?
2006-12-26 16:51:16 · 14 answers · asked by zz56zz56 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
a short tail
p.s. cool avatar!
2006-12-26 16:56:10 · answer #1 · answered by StephOhNee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answers above already got it. A bob-tail is a horse's tail cut shorter or bobbed. Then they would tie bells to the tail so that as the horse pulled the sleighs it would jingle jangle.
2006-12-26 17:00:34 · answer #2 · answered by Shadowtwinchaos 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The tails of horses. "Jingle Bells" was originally a drinking song about taking a raucous ride on a sleigh during the holidays.
2006-12-27 10:33:49 · answer #3 · answered by wyldfyr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would "bob" the horse tails shorter (the horses pulled the sleighs). So the bells were hung on bobbed horse tails.
2006-12-26 17:10:21 · answer #4 · answered by Carole 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the tails of horses. When the song was written it was back when people would trim their horses tails and put bells on them. The horses tails were trimmed so they wouldn't get into their own manure.
2006-12-26 23:11:31 · answer #5 · answered by couchP56 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the old days, apparently, people would cut their horses' tails, or "bob" them, and then put bells on them.
2006-12-26 16:54:27 · answer #6 · answered by drshorty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
BOB TAIL WAS THE HORSE WHO HAD THE JINGLE BELLS AROUND HIS NECK.
2006-12-26 19:04:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
After all these answers, guess what the tail of a bobcat looks like.
2006-12-26 19:12:57 · answer #8 · answered by towanda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some owners shorten the tails(bob them) of their horses. mainly to cut down on the poo that gets caught... when you ride behind a horse drawn cart or sleigh it can be gross...
2006-12-26 16:54:52 · answer #9 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wen u cut a horses tail
2006-12-26 17:30:24 · answer #10 · answered by Dattrny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tails cut short
2006-12-26 20:35:53 · answer #11 · answered by Wat Da Hell 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋