'Up On the Housetop" written in New Paris in 1864

"Ho, ho, ho! Who wouldn't go. Ho, ho, ho! Who wouldn't go.

Up in the housetop, click, click, click.

Down thru the chimney with good Saint Nick."

That popular Christmas song was written in 1864 in New Paris in Preble County.

The composer was Rev. Benjamin Hanby.

This song may will have been the first American song of importance which elaborates on the theme of Santa Claus.

"Ho, ho, ho!"

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