Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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Sleigh Ride
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Sleigh Ride

Leroy Anderson

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If this week’s tune sounds familiar to you, there’s a reason for that. And the reason isn’t that it’s become a part of the repertoire of seasonal “Muzak” that jingles and jangles in elevators and shopping malls the world over starting on the first of November — though it has. Our tune, “Sleigh Ride,” is the work Leroy Anderson, who is now considered …

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