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Deck The Halls
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Sep 14, 2026 updated
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Song Meaning
Phil Wickham's take on the traditional Welsh carol keeps the familiar call to deck the halls with boughs of holly and to mark the season as a time for joy, letting the fa-la-la refrain carry the momentum rather than adding new verses. The middle stanzas move from greenery and gladness to the instruction to don gay apparel and troll the ancient yule-tide carol, a line that treats the song itself as something inherited and worth passing on. There is a gentle awareness of time in the later verses, where the old year passes quickly and the singers hail the new one, lads and lasses together. The closing couplet is the most striking: singing joyously as one company, heedless of the wind and weather. That image of gathered voices ignoring the cold outside gives the carol its quiet weight, suggesting that celebration here is not dependent on comfortable circumstances but on shared song. The repeated fa-la-la sections function almost like a congregational response, inviting anyone listening to join in rather than simply observe. It is a warm, communal reading of a holiday standard, more about presence and participation than about spectacle.
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Deck the halls with boughs of holly
Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
'Tis the season to be jolly
Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Deck the halls with boughs of holly
Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
'Tis the season to be jolly
Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Don we now our gay apparel
Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Troll the ancient yule-tide carol
Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Fast away the old year passes
Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Hail the new year, lads and lasses
Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Sing we joyous, all together
Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Heedless of the wind and weather
Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Fa, la, la, la