Deb­bie Ja­cob

The Christ­mas hol­i­days were com­ing and that did not help Reg­ney's dark mood. One day, Reg­ney sat down and wrote a po­em about the first Christ­mas. When he fin­ished, he gave the po­em to his wife and asked her to write mu­sic for his po­em. Reg­ney thought the melody his wife wrote was one of the most beau­ti­ful he had ever heard, but the melody didn't quite fit the song. He had writ­ten, "Said the wind to the lit­tle lamb" but his wife had added an ex­tra mu­si­cal note. That line be­came "Said the night wind to the lit­tle lamb." Shayne did not think Amer­i­cans would un­der­stand the line about the star "with a tail as big as a kite" so she asked her hus­band to make a change. Reg­ney re­fused to change that line and it be­came one of the most en­dear­ing lines in a Christ­mas car­ol. As you can see, each Christ­mas song has its own sto­ry and that sto­ry, it turns out, is just as mag­i­cal as the hol­i­day it­self.