Can someone please tell me when and who these Christmas carols were written by?

I'm really interested in the centuries-old Christmas songs and I've been trying to research the origin of these songs with no luck. Also...were they originally in English or not?





"Good King Wenceslas"


"The Holly And The Ivy"


"Ding Dong Merrily On High"


"I Saw Three Ships"


"Here We Go A-Caroling"


"I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day"


'Here We Come A-Wassailing'"

Can someone please tell me when and who these Christmas carols were written by?
Reverend John Mason Neale wrote the lyrics to Good King Wenceslas in 1854. The melody is from an old 13th century carol that appeared in several famous compilations, including the Carmina Burana.





The music and most of the text of "The Holly and the Ivy" was collected by Cecil Sharp from a woman in Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire, in the late 19th century. This carol is probably related to an older carol: "The Contest of the Ivy and the Holly", a contest between the traditional emblems of man and woman respectively.





The tune of "Ding Dong Merrily on High" first appeared as a secular song called "Bransle l'Officiale" written by Jehan Tabourot (1519-1593). The text was composed by George Ratcliffe Woodward (1848-1934) and it was first published in 1924 in his ‘A Cambridge Carol Book.





I saw three ships has no known authorship that I can find, though it was published in "Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern", by William Sandys, 1833.





I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day is a Christmas carol based on the poem "Christmas Bells," composed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) in 1864. The poem has been set to several tunes. The first tune was set in the 1870s by an English organist, John Baptiste Calkin. Johnny Marks, known for his song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, set Longfellow’s poem in the 1950's. Marks' version has been recorded by Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, Kate Smith, Frank Sinatra, Harry Belafonte and Bing Crosby.





I could find no authorship on the other two songs; it can be very hard with old traditional songs like these.
Reply:I voted for jon m,as his answers must be right,so i will not argue against the fact.