Perhaps you sang Deck the Halls this past Christmas. But did you know that it was taken from a Welch song entitled Nos Galan, a traditional New Year’s Eve carol published in 1794?
However, the words were eventually changed to fit the Christmas season.
And well they should have been, since the original poem goes: “Oh! how soft my fair one’s bosom, fa,la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la!