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It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. It was associated with the coming New Year which, in pre-Christian Ukraine, was originally celebrated with the coming of spring in April. Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas, Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas, On on they send, on without end, their joyful tone to every home Dong Ding dong ding… dong! Click here for more free printable Christmas lyrics.
Click on the button to download a PDF file with lyrics to this song for free. This composition is copyrighted Licensing by Singing Bell is not available. Click on the button to watch a piano tutorial video and download a PDF file with music score of this song for free. Click here for more free Christmas sheet music. With the introduction of Christianity to Ukraine, and the adoption of the Julian calendar, the celebration of the New Year was moved from April to January, and the holiday with which the chant was originally associated became the Feast of Epiphany.
The original Ukrainian text tells the tale of a swallow flying into a household to proclaim the plentiful and bountiful year that the family will have.
The period for the birth of animals and the return of swallows to Ukraine, however, does not correspond to the current calendar season of winter.
A copyrighted English text was created by Peter Wilhousky in the s, and since then it has been performed and sung during the Christmas season.
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