Talk:Jolly Ol' St. Nick/@comment-125801-20181224112136

Worth knowing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolly_Old_Saint_Nicholas

"...originated with a poem by Emily Huntington Miller (1833-1913), published as "Lilly's Secret" in The Little Corporal Magazine in December 1865"

"The music has been attributed to John Piersol McCaskey, a school principal and former Mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who claimed to have written the song in 1867."

In addition to the attributions to Benjamin Hanby.