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We Wish You a Merry Christmas!

"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is a
popular English Christmas carol from the West Country of England.

The Bristol-based composer,
conductor and organist Arthur Warrell is responsible for the popularity of
the carol. Warrell arranged the tune for his own University of
Bristol Madrigal Singers, and performed it with them in concert on
December 6, 1935. That same year, his elaborate four-part arrangement was
published by Oxford University Press, under the title "A Merry
Christmas: West Country traditional song".

Warrell's arrangement is notable for
using "I" instead of "we" in the words; the first line is
"I wish you a Merry Christmas". It was subsequently
republished in the collection Carols for Choirs (1961), and
remains widely performed.

The earlier history of the carol is
unclear. It is absent from the collections of West-countrymen Davies
Gilbert (1822 and 1823)  and William Sandys (1833), as
well as from the great anthologies of Sylvester (1861)  and Husk
(1864). It is also missing from The Oxford Book of Carols (1928).
In the comprehensive New Oxford Book of Carols (1992), editors
Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott describe it as "English
traditional" and "[t]he remnant of an envoie much
used by wassailers and other luck visitors"; no source or date is given.

The greeting "a merry Christmas and a happy New
Year" is recorded from the early eighteenth century.

A closely related verse, dating from the 1830s.

Lyrics:

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!

                      * * *

Oh, bring us some figgy pudding!

Oh, bring us some figgy pudding!

Oh, bring us some figgy pudding and bring it
right here!



Good tidings we bring to you and your kin,

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy new
Year!

                      * * *



We won't go until we get some!

We won't go until we get some!

We won't go until we get some, so bring some out
here!



Good tidings we bring to you and your kin,

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year!



                      * * *

We like our figgy pudding!

We like our figgy pudding!

We like our figgy pudding with all its good cheers!

Good tidings we bring to you and your
kin,

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a
happy New Year!

                      * * *

We wish you a Merry
Christmas!

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year!

We wish you a Merry
Christmas!

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year!