The Christmas Song
Yuletide fireplace classic
"The Christmas Song" is a 1945 holiday standard written by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells, famous for its opening line "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire." The Nat King Cole recording became definitive, making it one of the most performed Christmas songs in American music.
The formal title distinguishes it from the generic phrase, though most people know it by its subtitle, "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire," or simply as the Nat King Cole Christmas song.
- chestnutsEdible tree seeds
- roastingCooking with dry heat
- open fireBegin discharging weapons
- Jack FrostPersonified bringer of cold
- nippingBiting lightly, sharply
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