Name that Christmas Tune, day 5

[lumineaux]

Wassail! wassail! all over the town,
Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown;



I've made them entirely too easy so far.  Now you need to tell me which "wassail" song this is from.  ;-)

lord_strider more or less correctly identified this as the "Gloucestershire Wassail"

Comments

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Interesting. I've sung this, but I always thought the title was "Wassail! wassail! all over the town".

[lumineaux.livejournal.com]

It has a name. Not a particularly descriptive name, but a name nonetheless.

Half credit will be given for filling in the complete lyrics.

[lord-strider.livejournal.com]

It is Wassail. I think the glostershire version.

[delabarre.livejournal.com]

We sing this in Ravensong. Is it cheating if I open my songbook? ;-)

[moonandtree.livejournal.com]

I know I'm late on these, but they really made me geek out. You really know some Christmas music lemme tell ya.

It's the Gower Wassail, one of the dirtiest drinking Christmas songs in the repertoire! "Now master and mistress if you are within, Pray send out your maid with her lily white skin." That arrrrrrs all by itself, you don't even need to be a pirate!