We Wish You a Merry Christmas Instrumental Ukulele Easy

We reveal the lyrics and history behind the carol that demands – and makes you feel rather hungry for – figgy pudding.

A joyous encore at Christmas choral concerts around the country, ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ is also heard on doorsteps, in pub corners and outside supermarkets throughout the month of December. It even makes an appearance at the end of best-Christmas-film-of-all-time (don’t @ us), Home Alone.

And would you know it, the song is thought to date all the way back to the 16th or 17th century.

At that time, carollers wanted grub like figgy pudding (see the second verse, below) to keep their tummies full and spirits high on cold winter evenings.

But for its present popularity we can thank the composer Arthur Warrell, who published a carol in 1939 called ‘A Merry Christmas’. He admitted that he had been inspired by a traditional English song, written some time before…

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