I've stumbled across an old "International Christmas carols" book (Theodore Presser co., 1966) which contains a Yorkshire Gooding Carol:

Well-a-day! Well-a-day!
Christmas too soon goes away!
Then your gooding we will pray
For the good-time will not stay.
We are not beggars that beg from door to door,
But neighbors' children you have known before.
So gooding pray, we cannot stay,
we cannot stay, but must away.
For the Christmas will not stay,
Well-a-day! Well-a-day!

Soooooo..... what's the history of gooding carols? Obviously it's reminiscent of wassail songs, but with a difference!