Wassail Song (III)

DESCRIPTION: "Jolly come to our jolly wassail." Wishes for a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Have "pockets of money and a cellar of beer" A ship in full sail is in the ocean gale. Get apples for cider. "I know you'll reward us for singing wassail"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1973 (recording, Wassailers on Voice16)
KEYWORDS: request drink nonballad wassail ship storm Christmas
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South))
Roud #209
RECORDINGS:
Wassailers, "Wassail Song" (on Voice16)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Somerset Wassail" (subject) and references there
File: RcWasSo3

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