Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This is a song taken from Joe Offer's collection of songs mainly taken from the BBC programme, "Singing Together". The melody is a traditional Welsh children's Song, Nos Galan, commonly associated with the Christmas Carol, "Deck the Halls".
Footnotes in the pamphlet read:

Source: Singing Together, Autumn 1960, BBC Publications

Notes:
Welsh Carol, Words by Mrs K. E. Roberts.

From 'The Oxford Book of Carols'.

According to the Oxford Book of Carols, this is based on the Welsh New Year secular carol 'Nos Galan'; the secular carol 'Deck the Halls' is to the same tune.