APPLE-TREE WASSAIL
collected from The Watersons

Lily white lily white lily white pin
Please to come down and let us come in.
Lily white lily white lily white smock
Please to come down and pull back the lock.

For it's our wassail, jolly wassail; joy come to our jolly wassail.

How well they may bloom, how well they may bear,
That we may have apples and cider next year.

Master and mistress, oh are you within?
Please to come down and let us come in.

For it's our wassail, jolly wassail; joy come to our jolly wassail.

How well they may bloom, how well they may bear,
That we may have apples and cider next year.

There was an old farmer that had but one cow
And how to milk her, he didn't know how.
He put his old cow all in his old barn
And a little more liquor won't do us no harm.

Harm, me boys, harm; Harm, me boys, harm;
A little more liquor won't do us no harm.

Lily white lily white lily white pin
Please to come down and let us come in.
Lily white lily white lily white smock
Please to come down and pull back the lock.

For it's our wassail, jolly wassail; joy come to our jolly wassail.

How well they may bloom, how well they may bear,
That we may have apples and cider next year.

For it's our wassail, jolly wassail; joy come to our jolly wassail.