Jolly Old Saint Nicholas

DESCRIPTION: "Jolly old Saint Nicholas, lend your ear this way." The child says Christmas is close and wants to know what Santa will bring. Her will be the shortest stocking. She talks of what others want, but "My little brain isn't very bright," so "Choose for me"
AUTHOR: Words: Emily Huntington Miller / Music: James R. Murray (source: Hymns and Carols of Christmas web site)
EARLIEST DATE: Words: 1865 (The Little Corporal Magazine) / Music: 1874 (source: The Hymns and Carols of Christmas site)
KEYWORDS: Christmas gift request
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 44, "As for me, my little brain isn't very bright" (1 text)
Roud #25486
File: KSUC044

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