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| "Here we come a-wassailing" |
Here We Come A-wassailing (or Here We Come A-caroling) is an English traditional Christmas carol and New Years song, apparently composed c. 1850. 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; compare A-Hunting We Will Go and lyrics to The Twelve Days of Christmas (e.g., "Six geese a-laying").
According to Readers Digest;
"the Christmas spirit often made the rich a little more generous than
usual, and bands of beggars and orphans used to dance their way through
the snowy streets of England,
offering to sing good cheer and to tell good fortune if the householder
would give them a drink from his wassail bowl or a penny or a pork pie
or, let them stand for a few minutes beside the warmth of his hearth.
The wassail bowl itself was a hearty combination of hot ale or beer,
apples, spices and mead, just alcoholic enough to warm tingling toes and
fingers of the singers".
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"Wishing You and Yours a Very Happy New Years!
I recorded all 4 parts using Garageband Application
on my Macbook! Scenes are from around my backyard,
along the Oswego River,here in Upstate NY!"
I recorded all 4 parts using Garageband Application
on my Macbook! Scenes are from around my backyard,
along the Oswego River,here in Upstate NY!"
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