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For some time, Cute Dog has been wondering where the term "Carol" came from
as applied to Christmas Carols. After excruciatingly painstaking
research in "The New Revised Dogsford Book of Carols", Cute Dog has
found the answer - the term comes from all the different
human women named Carol who were associated with certain Christmas tunes/songs!
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For instance there is Carol of the Bells - She was a Ukrainian woman in loose-fitting,
flowing, colorful, tie-dyed clothes
with bells sewn all over them and her hat (Bells! That makes Cute Dog salivate!)
- so she was known as Carol of the bells.
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Then there was Boar's Head Carol (Boars - Mmmmm! That makes Cute Dog hungry!) -
this Carol was a huntress in ancient England who specialized in boars.
When she killed them, she hung their heads in her house to advertise her
hunting prowess, hence - Boar's Head Carol.
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And Cherry Tree Carol - she lived in Colonial America near the Washington
estate, and she had a cherry tree her father had given her as a child.
She loved that tree. It was her cherry tree, not George's
father's, that George cut down, and boy was she mad!
Her outrage over that incident was known all over Colonial America, and
from then on she was known as Cherry Tree Carol! (Mmmm! Cherries! Cherry Pie!
Cherry Cobbler! Mmmmm. That makes Cute Dog hungry!)
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Then there were Coventry Carol and Wexford Carol - they, of course, were from
Coventry and Wexford, respectively. Not much else is known of them. (But
Cute Dog wants to know what they have to eat in Wexford and Coventry! Were these
Carols good cooks?)
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