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".