Jangle Bells
Everyone knows the chorus and the first verse to "Jingle Bells", but what about the second?
*"We got into a drifted bank and then we got upsot!"
What is that? "Upsot"? Barbara Streisand's version of the song questions it. So should we. Is it a play on "upset"? I looked up "sot" in the dictionary and it basically means "to get drunk". Is that what you do? Get sloshed when you, your girlfriend, your horse and sleigh get into a wreck?
posted by Ernie @ 9:03 PM
1 Comments:
Nothing so naughty as getting drunk!
Upsot appears in two 19th century poems which indicate that it means "turned over" (upset physically).
Check out the use of "upsot" at
http://www.bartleby.com/248/728.html
and
http://www.bartleby.com/248/1132.html
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