Hey I didn't know that wow.  Thanks for sharing.

Lelia


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 4:21 AM
Subject: Re: FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONGS


> Julie,
> Do you know the story behind that song?  The composeers wife was killed
> in a tragic accident   about a year before.  I guess that she was using
> sealing wax to try to save a lock of her daughter's hair.  The wind from
> an open window nearby blew the flame onto her dress and with all those
> layers of clothes that they wore during the Victorian era, saving her was
> a lost cause. Also, the civil war was heading into its fourth year and
> that, plus the loss of his wife, brought about a pretty deep depression.
>   Anyway, about a year later, it was the Christmas bells that helped to
> lift his depression and so he wrote the poem.
> Kathy
>
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