song:somerset-wassail
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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 | ||
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+ | **Chorus:** | ||
+ | //For its your wassail and its our wassail | ||
+ | And its joy be to you and a jolly wassail// | ||
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+ | 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 | ||
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+ | [// | ||
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+ | 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 | ||
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+ | [// | ||
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+ | 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 | ||
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+ | [// | ||
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+ | 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 |