"Alle Jahre wieder" is a well known Christmas carol, written in 1837 by Johann Wilhelm Hey. The most common melody is usually attributed to Friedrich Silcher. Other melody versions comes from German composers Ernst Anschütz and Christian Heinrich Rinck, 1827 who also set these words to music. The name of the song was used for the title of the 1967 film Alle Jahre wieder by Ulrich Schamoni.