So bring us ye olde figgy pudding

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

We wish you a merry Christmas,

We wish you a merry Christmas,

We wish you a merry Christmas,

And a happy New Year

Good tidings we bring to you and your kin.

We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Now bring us some figgy pudding,

Now bring us some figgy pudding,

Now bring us some figgy pudding,

And bring some out here.

Good tidings ...

For we all like figgy pudding,

For we all like figgy pudding,

For we all like figgy pudding,

So bring some out here.

Good tidings ...

And we won't go until we got some,

And we won't go until we got some,

And we won't go until we got some,

So bring some out here.

A 'figgy pudding' is now known simply as 'Christmas pudding'. The description of the pudding as 'figgy' refers to its appearance as being like the inside of a fig, meaning filled with dried fruit.
Recipe for 'Figgy Pudding' from Liber Cure Cocorum which was written c.1420.

For stondand fygnade.

Fyrst play þy water with hony and salt,

Grynde blanchyd almondes I wot þou schalle;

Þurghe a streynour þou shalt hom streyne,

With þe same water þat is so clene.

In sum of þe water stepe þou schalle

Whyte brede crustes to alye hit with alle;

Þenne take figgus and grynde hom wele,

Put hom in pot so have þou cele;

Þen take brede, with mylke hit streyne

Of almondes þat be white and clene;

Cast in þo fyggus þat ar igrynde

With powder of peper þat is þo kynde,

And powder of canel; in grete lordys house

With sugur or hony þou may hit dowce;

Þen take almondes cloven in twen,

Þat fryid ar with oyle, and set with wyn

Þy disshe, and florysshe hit þou myt

With powder of gynger þat is so bryt,

And serve hit forthe as I spake thenne

And set hit in sale before gode menne.