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Kathy, I didn't know that. Thanks for that story. Helps the song make even
more sense. Do you remember the author's name?
Julie
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>From: Kathy Du Bois <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Echurch-USA The Electronic Church
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>Subject: Re: FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONGS
>Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 06:21:58 -0500
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>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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