We wish you a merry Christmas

We wish you a merry Christmas is a traditional English Christmas Carol (Christmas Carol).

The song has its origins in Anglo-saxon typically use to as Carol Singers to go from door to door, and a reward brought back to expect for the performed Christmas songs. In this text is even explicitly talk of asking for a reward in the form of Figgy Pudding (with which traditional English Christmas pudding is meant). It is one of the few traditional holiday carols that reference is made also to the new year.

The song was used by many artists. The first verse was even the opening of Gloria Estefans song Silver bells. The song is also often the last song sung at performances by choirs who perform Christmas songs.

Although the first part ' We wish you a merry Christmas ' can come across as a refrain, this is actually the first verse. The chorus starts getting with ' Good tidings we bring '. Sometimes chosen to, after the fourth time chorus, the song with a repetition of the first verse (' We wish you a merry Cristmas '). ==Text[ Edit] == The text of the song reads: