Talk:Ding Dong Merrily on High

Punctuation

Is there really a comma at the end of the first line? "on high in heaven the bells are ringing" seems to make more sense to me, but I don't have access to a Woodward source. Mooncow 23:46, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I see that corrected lyrics have kindly been added by Dah31. Mooncow (talk) 01:19, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Lyrics

The article contains the following claim:

'Note: "Swungen" and "Sungen" in the second verse, whilst correct English, are very often rendered into their more modern past-forms of "swung" and "sung" for performance today, which somewhat alters the balance of that verse.'

Is this really true? It seems an extraordinary thing to do, and I have never heard anything but the "swungen" and "sungen" forms despite having heard this carol sung many many times by many many choirs. Mooncow (talk) 00:02, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

I came to ask the same thing. What does "correct" mean in this context? I would believe they are archaic past tenses, but that doesn't equal correct imo. Does anyone know?Yobmod (talk) 15:51, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

"Most memorable feature"

I'm going to reinstate my bit about the Glo-o-…-o-ria but try to make it less POV (and add references (though I reckon one of them might have been copied from the other)). (I originally got it from the article on Angels We Have Heard on High, where an almost identical line has stood unchallenged for over two years.) As for AWHHoH, its line is IMHO exactly the same, except the end is different and it's shorter (and therefore not as good).—Dah31 (talk) 02:19, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

What does Riv'n mean?

is Riven a word apart from that one videogame? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 04:41, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/riven...

Riven - the past participle of "rive", meaning to tear or rend apart, split, cleave. Could've looked it up on dictionary.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.58.93.184 (talk) 17:25, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

'Selected recordings'

Selected by whom? Why those ones in particular? What makes them particularly relevant? Does this section actually add anything useful to this article? Other than, of course, the obvious 'It's a popular carol - several people have sung it' :) --82.70.156.254 (talk) 02:25, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Restore lyrics?

@Damian Yerrick: made an edit whose summary stated, in part: "The lyrics were first published in 1924, which is after the Copyright Term Extension Act cutoff. Do not revert before January 1, 2020, unless you can find evidence that US copyright in the lyrics was not renewed."

(Emphasis mine.) So may the lyrics be restored now? If not this Wikipedia article, what other WMF project would be an appropriate place? --SoledadKabocha (talk) 00:19, 23 July 2020 (UTC)