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Re: Country Related: Christmas

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 22, 1998, 21:45
John Cowan wrote:
> I can't find any printed form other than "ye"; I suggest you > have here a "mondegreen"
Possibly, or perhaps a regional variant? I don't hear that line very often, so I'm not sure.
> However, the Web site I cited earlier gives the third line of > "Deck the halls" as "Fill the mead cup, drain the barrel" > rather than the line I know, "Don we now our gay apparel" ... > and changes "Yuletide" to "Christmas"! *arrgh*
Folk songs like that often have lots of variations. I too have "Don we know our gay apparel" and "Yuletide" rather than "Christmas".