Let's be honest: this is the one Christmas carol that shows up at your door, refuses to leave, and openly demands figgy pudding — a food that no living human has actually seen, tasted, or been able to describe. And it makes this threat politely, in three-quarter time, which is somehow more menacing.
This clip is 34 seconds of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" arranged as MelodyChords: melody and chords crammed onto one guitar, so you get to be the entire caroling mob all by yourself — no neighbours, no harmony section, no pudding-sharing required.
How this MelodyChords arrangement works
The whole thing is a waltz — 3/4 time in G major — and the pickup word "We" sneaks in on beat three, before the bar you're counting has even finished. That little upbeat is why so many people stumble at the start: your foot wants beat one, but the tune starts early. In a MelodyChords arrangement the melody rides the top strings while the chords sit underneath (G, C, D7, back to G, with an Em and A7 for the "good tidings" bit), and the single most important rule is that the melody note stays the highest pitch in every grip.
Concrete takeaway: pick out the tune on the top two or three strings first, alone, until your ear owns it. Then add the bass and inner voices underneath and keep those short and quiet — clip the chord, let the top note ring. If the melody is buried, your ear hears mush; if it sings on top, it sounds like a real arrangement. That's the entire trick to a good chord-melody.
Play it well and the carolers finally leave. Play it badly and they ask for the figgy pudding recipe. For the Guitar Pro file and the tab, I'm on Patreon.