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song:somerset-wassail [2018/07/09 12:12] – created Jeff Biglersong:somerset-wassail [2018/07/09 12:14] (current) Jeff Bigler
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 +====== Somerset Wassail ======
  
 +Wassail and wassail all over the town
 +The cup it is white and the ale it is brown
 +The cup it is made of the good ashen tree
 +And so is the malt of the best barley
 +
 +**Chorus:**
 +//For its your wassail and its our wassail
 +And its joy be to you and a jolly wassail//
 +
 +Oh master and missus, are you all within?
 +Pray open the door and let us come in
 +O master and missus a-sitting by the fire
 +Pray think on us poor travelers, a traveling in the mire
 +
 +[//chorus//]
 +
 +Oh where is the maid with the silver-headed pin
 +To open the door and let us come in
 +Oh master and missus, it is our desire
 +A good loaf and cheese and a toast by the fire
 +
 +[//chorus//]
 +
 +There was an old man and he had an old cow
 +And how for to keep her he didn't know how
 +He built up a barn for to keep his cow warm
 +And a drop or two of cider will do us no harm
 +
 +[//chorus//]
 +
 +The girt dog of Langport he burnt his long tail
 +And this is the night we go singing wassail
 +O master and missus now we must be gone
 +God bless all in this house until we do come again