Here We Come a Wassailing

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This is a Christmas song that most people would have a hard time associating with the title? Hum a few bars and “yeah, I know that song, I love it.”

The Wassail Song while a popular around Christmas in fact isn’t a celebration of the birth. This song is a New Year’s song hence the lyric” and God bless you and send you a happy New Year.”

The tune is about toasting to good health with a full glass of Wassail which can either be an alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage.

How this song was associated with Christmas is beyond me. In the end, who cares, thanks It’s A Wonderful Life, Auld Lang Syne found its way to many a Christmas song list.

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The Lyrics

Here we come a wassailing among the leaves so green, Here we come a wandering so fair to be seen.

Chorus

Love and joy come to you, And to you your wassail too,and God bless you and send you a happy New Year. And God send you a happy New Year.

Our wassail cup is made of the rosemary tree, and so is your beer of the best barley.We are not daily beggars that beg from door to door, but we are neighbor’s children whom you have seen before.

Chorus

 Good Master and good Mistress, as you sit by the fire, pray think of us poor children are wandering in the mire.

 We have a little purse Made of ratching leather skin we want some of your small change to line it well within.

 Call up the Butler of this house, put on his golden ring let him bring us a glass of beer, and the better we shall sing.

Chorus

Bring us out a table and spread it with a cloth bring us out a moldy cheese and some of your Christmas loaf.

 God bless the Master of this house, likewise the Mistress too and all the little children that round the table go.

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