Ding! Dong! Merrily on High

Year: 1924
Composer: tune from "le branle de l'Official" in Thoinot Areau's Orchésographie (1588)
Lyricist: George Ratcliffe Woodward (1924)
Origin: France


My favorite - quintessential Christmas carol singing by The Choir of King's College Cambridge:

Sing-along with Celtic Woman:

Ding dong merrily on high,

In heav'n the bells are ringing:

Ding dong! verily the sky

Is riv'n with angel singing.

Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis!

E'en so here below, below,

Let steeple bells be swungen,

And "Io, io, io!"

By priest and people sungen.

Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis!

Pray you, dutifully prime

Your matin chime, ye ringers;

May you beautifully rime

Your evetime song, ye singers.

Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis!