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Thread #75609   Message #1330056
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
17-Nov-04 - 12:19 PM
Thread Name: Yuletide carols
Subject: RE: Yuletide carols
The original of Here we come a-wassailing of course, is the traditional 17th c. English Wassail carol, without the nouveau pagan slant. See: Hymns and Carols of Christmas: Wassail
"Bring us out a mouldy cheese and some of your Christmas loaf" is one of the better lines. Reminds me of that superb dish, apple pie topped with a good, moldy Stilton.

No Yule, but "chestnuts roasting by an open fire," I guess, is more to the modern taste.