The double-meaning of the word "upsot" in the song was thought humorous, and a sleigh ride gave an unescorted couple a rare chance to be together, unchaperoned, in distant woods or fields, with all the opportunities that afforded. Sleigh rides were the nineteenth-century equivalent of taking a girl to a drive-in movie theatre in the 1950's and early 1960's, so there was a somewhat suggestive and scintillating aspect to the song that is often now unrecognized.