Deck the Halls

"Deck the Halls" is a Christmas and New Year's themed song. The "fa-la-la" refrains were played earlier on harps. The tunes of this song are that of old Welsh air. Various singers have covered the song, including James Taylor and Nat King Cole.

Deck The Halls Media

• Original printed version of Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly.jpg

  Thomas Oliphant's original English words as they appear in Welsh Melodies With Welsh and English Poetry (volume 2), published in 1862

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  Pennsylvania School Journal, 1877

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  First known publication of the melody "Nos Galan" (1794) by the Welsh harpist Edward Jones.