Wassail Song

The carol is also known as here we come a wassailing.

Wassail song. The old english wassail song refers to wassailing or singing carols door to door wishing good health while the a is an archaic intensifying prefix. Here we come a wassailing or here we come a caroling is a traditional english christmas carol and new year song dating from at least the mid 19th century but possibly much older. The wassail song is a traditional christmas carol that celebrates the new year. A wassail king and queen lead the song and or a processional tune to be played sung from one orchard to the next the wassail queen will then be lifted up into the boughs of the tree where she will place toast soaked in wassail from the clayen cup as a gift to the tree spirits and to show the fruits created the previous year.

Be hale is a beverage of hot mulled cider drunk traditionally as an integral part of wassailing a medieval christmastide english drinking ritual intended to ensure a good cider apple harvest the following year. Here we come a caroling is a variation of the carol in which a wassailing is changed to a caroling. English traditional 17th century. All over the town the wassailing bowl and wassail song is an english christmas carol from the gloucestershire region of england dating back to at least the 18th century but may be older.

O mistress at your door our wassail begins wassail wassail out of the milk pail. The wassail song version 2 see generally wassailing notes on the songs. The wassail song version 1 here we come a wassailing the wassail song version 2 here we come a caroling the wassail song first line. The first known publication of the song s current version was in 1928 in the.

The gloucestershire wassail also known as wassail wassail. The wassail song here we come a wassailing among the leaves so green here we come a wand ring so fair to be seen 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 we are not daily beggers. Compare a hunting we will go and lyrics to the twelve days. Here we come a wassailing here we come a caroling and here we go a caroling words.

Traditional english wassail song 17th century. The author of the lyrics and composer of the music are unknown. Old norse ves heil old english was hál literally.