| Author | Topic: Add: We wish you a Merry Christmas | |
| dmcg | Posted - 28 Sep 04 - 09:37 am | |
We wish you a merry Christmas, We wish you a merry Christmas, We wish you a merry Christmas, And a happy New Year Good tidings we bring to you and your kin. We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Now bring us some figgy pudding, Now bring us some figgy pudding, Now bring us some figgy pudding, And bring some out here. Good tidings ... For we all like figgy pudding, For we all like figgy pudding, For we all like figgy pudding, So bring some out here. Good tidings ... And we won't go until we got some, And we won't go until we got some, And we won't go until we got some, So bring some out here. Good tidings ... Source: Singing Together, Autumn 1965, BBC Publications Notes: Identified simply as 'English Carol'. | ||
| masato sakurai | Posted - 29 May 07 - 01:29 am | |
Roud number: 230. All background information given in The New Oxford Book of Carols (1992, p. 529) is: "The remnant of an envoie much used by wassailers and other luck visitors, still in all too common use by modern doorstep carollers." What are the sources, earliest date of records, etc.? Included in The Traditional Ballad Index, but without such information. A Treasury of Christmas Carols: The Hymns and Carols of Christmas isn't of much help (though it quotes: "quite possibly from the sixteenth century"). | ||
| jeff | Posted - 02 Jun 07 - 09:26 pm | |
Its obvious relative is "We singers make bold", a North Country carol which is both still sung and familiar as a brass band setting. | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 03 Jun 07 - 01:47 pm | |
We singers make bold is often sung at the various carol sessions in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire and is on at least one of the recordings from Village Carols. Regretfully,few of these recordings remain on sale. | ||