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+====== Gower Wassail ======
+A-wassail, a-wassail throughout all this town
+Our cup it is white and our ale it is brown
+Our wassail is made of the good ale and cake
+Some nutmeg and ginger, the best we can bake
+**Chorus:**
+//Fal the dal, lal the dal the dal
+Fal the dal the dal, lal the dal the dee
+Fal the deero, fal the daddy
+Sing too ra li do//
+Our wassail is made of the elderberry bough
+Although my good neighbors we'll drink unto thou
+Besides all on earth, we have apples in store
+Pray let us come in for its cold by the door
+[//chorus//]
+We know by the moon that we are not too soon
+And we know by the sky that we are not too high
+We know by the star that we are not too far
+And we know by the ground that we are within sound
+[//chorus//]
+Now master and mistress let your company forbear
+To fill up our wassail with you cider and beer
+We want none of your pale beer, nor none of your small
+But a drop of your kilderkin, that's next to the wall
+[//chorus//]
+Now master and mistress if you are within
+Pray send out your maid with her lily-white skin
+For to open the door without more delay
+For our time it is precious and we cannot stay
+[//chorus//]
+You've brought your wassail, which is very well known
+But I can assure you we've as good of our own
+As for your jolly wassail, we care not one pin
+But its for your good company we'll let you come in
+[//chorus//]
+Here's a health to our Cooley and her croo'ed horn
+May God send her Master a good crop of corn
+Of barley and wheat and all sorts of grain
+May God send her Mistress a long life to reign
+[//chorus//]
+Now Master and Mistress, we hope that  you'll give
+Unto our jolly wassail as long as you live
+And if we do live to another new year
+Then perhaps we may call and see who do live here
+[//chorus//]