Talk:We Wish You a Merry Christmas

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I this song (or the melody) copyrighted??194.144.18.242 (talk) 17:04, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Assuming it is was written in the 16th century as the article states, then no, it is not copyrighted. --skew-t (talk) 08:03, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

But is it appropriate to have the lyrics since Wikipedia is really not a lyrical depot. Dancing is Forbidden (talk) 03:44, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know why not. But the usual lyrics should be there: "We wish you a merry Christmas/We wish you a merry Christmas/We wish you a merry Christmas/And a Happy New Year." I have never heard any of the variants that are currently in the article. If you ask any American to sing the song, those are the lyrics he will sing. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric

Vandalism[edit]

This page is continuously vandalised by IP addresses, I think this page should be temporarily locked to users only. GWPSP090 (talk) 21:46, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Spurious citations[edit]

Sources 2 and 3 are bad. "Why Does Santa Wear Red?" offers no evidence nor citations for its info and the other webpage seems to be directly quoting the Wikipedia page. I am removing them and replacing with [citation needed]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.204.56.156 (talk) 22:01, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Really from the sixteenth century?[edit]

The source that claims it's from the sixteenth century is not exactly scholarly. I can find no evidence of this carol's existence earlier than 1935, when Arthur Warrell's arragement was published. Warrell refers to it merely as a "Traditional (West Country) carol", and it's not clear whether he means the words, the music, or both. Does anyone have a scholarly source for its antiquity? Grover cleveland (talk) 19:13, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Updated the article with more information on the origin and more caution about the alleged sixteenth-century date.Grover cleveland (talk) 17:17, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]