We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Instrumental version by Kevin MacLeod

Fig pudding (flambéed with brandy)

We Wish You a Merry Christmas ( We wish you a Merry Christmas ) is a traditional English Christmas carol from the West Country in England dating back to the 16th century.

The origin of this Christmas song is rooted in the English tradition, with rich parishioners on Christmas Eve Christmas goodies to the Carolers - that is the custom of Carol singing caring singers - gave such as fig pudding that today's Christmas Pudding resembled (Christmas pudding). It is one of the few English traditional Christmas carols that mention the New Year celebrations . It is often the last song performed by these singers for the people they visit.

There are numerous arrangements and countless recordings of the song in a wide variety of styles. A German song text was written by Monika Heumann.

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English	translation
We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas, And a Happy New Year! chorus Good tidings we bring To you and your kin; Good tidings for 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! chorus For we all like figgy pudding, We all like figgy pudding, We all like figgy pudding, So bring some out here! chorus And we won't go until we've got some, We won't go until we've got some, We won't go until we've got some, So bring some out here! chorus	We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas, And a Happy New Year! Chorus We bring good news to you and your relatives; We wish you a Merry Christmas (or: Blessed Christmas) and a Happy New Year! Now bring us some fig pudding, Now bring us some fig pudding, Now bring us some fig pudding, And bring out something! Choir Because we all like fig pudding, We all like fig pudding, We all like fig pudding, So bring something out! Choir And we won't go until we have something We won't go until we have something We won't go until we have something So bring something out of here! Choir

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Sound sample a (Arr. Arthur Warrell ) b (Arr. David Willcocks ), b (Arr. John Rutter )

References and footnotes

↑ worldofchristmas.net: We Wish You a Merry Christmas!
↑ A cake-like dessert made from figs , raisins and nuts and other ingredients.
↑ worldofchristmas.net: We Wish You a Merry Christmas!
↑ for example by the English composers Arthur Warrell (1883–1939), David Willcocks and John Rutter (see sound samples)
↑ for example jazzy ( sound sample )
↑ We Wish You a Merry Christmas / We wish you a Merry Christmas. ( Memento from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Lyrics

[1] worldofchristmas.net: We Wish You a Merry Christmas!

[2] A cake-like dessert made from figs , raisins and nuts and other ingredients.

[3] worldofchristmas.net: We Wish You a Merry Christmas!

[4] r example by the English composers Arthur Warrell (1883–1939), David Willcocks and John Rutter (see sound samples)

[5] r example jazzy ( sound sample )

[6] We Wish You a Merry Christmas / We wish you a Merry Christmas. ( Memento from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Lyrics