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| rdfs:comment | - "Here We Come A-Caroling" is a traditional English Christmas carol which wishes the listeners good cheer and health. It is sung by the cast of Sesame Street in A Muppet Family Christmas as they approach Emily Bear's house.
- Love and joy come to you And a Merry Christmas too So we send you and wish you a Happy New Year And we sing you a Happy New Year Alvin: We are not daily beggars That beg from door to door But we are neighbors' children Whom you have seen before The Chipmunks: Love and joy come to you And a Merry Christmas too So we send you and wish you a Happy New Year And we sing you a Happy New Year Alvin: Good master and mistress As you sit by the fire Think of us poor children Who wander in the mire
- "Here We Come A-Caroling" (or "Here We Come A-Wassailing") is an English traditional Christmas carol and New Year's song. It refers to "wassailing", or singing carols door-to-door. An old English wassail song, or song to wish good health, which is what "wassail" means. According to Readers Digest, "the Christmas spirit often made the rich a little more generous than usual, and bands of beggars and orphans used to dance their way through the snowy streets of England, offering to sing good cheer and to tell good fortune if the householder would give them a drink from his wassail bowl or a penny or a pork pie or, let them stand for a few minutes beside the warmth of his hearth. The wassail bowl itself was a hearty combination of hot ale or beer and spices and mead, just alcoholic enough to wa
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| Caption | - The Sesame Street gang sings the song in A Muppet Family Christmas.
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| Description | - "Here We Come A-Caroling" is a traditional Christmas and New Year carol that is covered by The Chipmunks in the albums Christmas with The Chipmunks, Vol. 2, Merry Christmas from The Chipmunks, Christmas with The Chipmunks (2006), and Christmas with The Chipmunks (2008).
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| Video | - The Chipmunks-Here We Come A-Caroling
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| abstract | - "Here We Come A-Caroling" is a traditional English Christmas carol which wishes the listeners good cheer and health. It is sung by the cast of Sesame Street in A Muppet Family Christmas as they approach Emily Bear's house.
- "Here We Come A-Caroling" (or "Here We Come A-Wassailing") is an English traditional Christmas carol and New Year's song. It refers to "wassailing", or singing carols door-to-door. An old English wassail song, or song to wish good health, which is what "wassail" means. According to Readers Digest, "the Christmas spirit often made the rich a little more generous than usual, and bands of beggars and orphans used to dance their way through the snowy streets of England, offering to sing good cheer and to tell good fortune if the householder would give them a drink from his wassail bowl or a penny or a pork pie or, let them stand for a few minutes beside the warmth of his hearth. The wassail bowl itself was a hearty combination of hot ale or beer and spices and mead, just alcoholic enough to warm tingling toes and fingers of the singers".
- Love and joy come to you And a Merry Christmas too So we send you and wish you a Happy New Year And we sing you a Happy New Year Alvin: We are not daily beggars That beg from door to door But we are neighbors' children Whom you have seen before The Chipmunks: Love and joy come to you And a Merry Christmas too So we send you and wish you a Happy New Year And we sing you a Happy New Year Alvin: Good master and mistress As you sit by the fire Think of us poor children Who wander in the mire The Chipmunks: Love and joy come to you And a Merry Christmas too So we send you and wish you a Happy New Year And we sing you a Happy New Year So bless the master of this house Likewise the mistress too And all the little children That round the table go Love and joy come to you And a Merry Christmas too So we send you and wish you a Happy New Year And we sing you a Happy New Year!
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