John Pierpont "Autographs of Freedom" (1853). John Pierpont did not write the song "Jingle Bells" as erroneously claimed by Robert Fulghum in his collection of essays It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It (1989). "Jingle Bells" was composed by his son James Lord Pierpont, who lived in Savannah, Georgia, and who was a Confederate soldier during the Civil War, composing songs for the Confederate States of America, including "Our Battle Flag", "Strike for the South", and "We Conquer or Die". John Pierpont was also the maternal grandfather of financier J. Pierpont Morgan. For detailed genealogical information, see 20>16232 in
Christmas in Our Hearts make it a silver jubilee song for the Assumption High School Class of 1963. He described "Ang Tubig ay Buhay" as a very beautiful poem, which is why he found it easy to compose a tune for it: Before production started, Chan had attended Mass at Santuario de San Antonio in Forbes Park, Makati, when songwriter Rina Cañiza knocked on his car window. Canizal later wrote the words of "Christmas in Our Hearts" using Chan's melody for "Ang Tubig ay Buhay". "Christmas in Our Hearts" is the best-selling album not only by Chan, but by an Original Pilipino Music (OPM)