Lyr Req: Old Fox Wassail

Subject: Lyr Add: HERE WE COME A-WASSAILING (from Watersons
From:
Date: 13 Dec 99 - 02:36 PM

I have found references to an:
OLD FOX WASSAIL
I have not seen anything like that title but there is a fox in A. L. Lloyd's Wassail song-

Is this it? If not send on the lyrics and notation the song below was also recorded by Watersons under title HERE WE COME A WASSAILING....

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Thanks eversomuch in advance!

Conrad

Here we come a-wassailing among the leaves so green,
Here we come a wandering so fairly to be seen.
Now is winter-time strangers travel far and near
And we wish you and send you a happy New Year

We hope that all your barley will prosper fine and grow,
So that you'll have plenty and a bit more to bestow,
We hope your wethers they grow fat and likewise all your ewes,
And where they had one lamb we hope they will have two.

Bud and blossom, bud and blossom, bud and bloom and bear,
So we may have plenty and cider all next year.
Hatfuls and in capfuls and bushel-bags and all,
And the cider running out of every gutter-hole.

Down here in the muddy lane there sits an old red fox,
Starving and a-shivering and licking his old chops.
Bring us out your table and spread it if you please,
And give us hungry wassailers a bit of bread and cheese.

I've a little purse and it's made of leather skin.
A little silver sixpences would line it well within,
Now is winter-time, strangers travel far and near,
And we wish you and send you a happy New Year

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Fox Wassail????Lyrics and notati
From:
Date: 13 Dec 99 - 08:14 PM

congratulations to someone who sang it at a program last month recognized it as the Old fox Wassail!

Conradd