Origins: the merry merry christmas bells

Subject: Origins: the merry merry christmas bells
From: GUEST,stonejohn
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 11:43 PM

We have a song we sing around here; chorus goes " oh hear them ring, those merry merry Christmas bells," & c. Does anyone else know it, or where it's from? we'd like to know.

Subject: RE: Origins: the merry merry christmas bells
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 25 Feb 05 - 11:53 PM

Your original requests (2001) are still here. The first contains information useful in eliminating possibilities that weren't, as it turned out, what you were looking for:

Oh hear them ring

Hymn Detectives:Origins?

Subject: RE: Origins: the merry merry christmas bells
From: GUEST,stonejohn
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 11:40 PM

I keep hoping, but, alas! sj

Subject: RE: Origins: the merry merry christmas bells
From: Compton
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 12:20 PM

It sounds like summat they sing in t' sheffield pubs. Try Ian Russell

Subject: RE: Origins: the merry merry christmas bells
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 01:14 PM

Not known in the Sheffield carol pubs, I think, though plenty of the carols do have bells in them. If Dave Eyre passes by he'll probably be able to tell you for sure, though.