We Wish You a Merry Christmas Mp3 Download & Lyrics..
The Bristol-based composer, conductor and organist Arthur Warrell (1883-1939) is responsible for the popularity of the carol.
Warrell, a lecturer at the University of Bristol from 1909, arranged the tune for his own University of Bristol Madrigal Singers as an elaborate four-part arrangement, which he performed with them in concert on December 6, 1935.
His composition was published by Oxford University Press the same year under the title “A Merry Christmas: West Country traditional song”.
It’s however important to know that 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 popular version begins as follows:
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
However, many traditional versions of the song have been recorded, some of which replace the last line with “Good tidings for Christmas and a happy new year”.
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We Wish You a Merry Christmas 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 it right here
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year
We all like our figgy pudding
We all like our figgy pudding
We all 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.
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