Christmas Song Follies, day 11

[lumineaux]

Since I seem to be making these way too easy, here's a more challenging one:

And here is to Colly and to her long tail,
Pray God send our master he never may fail
A bowl of strong beer; I pray you draw near
And our jolly wassail it's then you shall hear.

No guesses at all. It's the Gloucestershire Wassail. The chorus goes:
Wassail, Wassail, all over the town
Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown,
Our bowl it is made of the white maple tree;
With a wassailing bowl we'll drink to thee.

You can find a wave file of part of it here:
http://www.waverlyconsort.org/recordings/waverlychristmas.php

Comments

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

OK, this one has me stumped. I usually can sing enough of the songs you post to "sing around to" the title phrase; this one I haven't even got a tune in my ear.

[rtropeano.livejournal.com]

I have a tune, may not be the right one, and I seem to only get other bits in Latin, of a similar but different tune.

This will bug me.