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Thread #41897 Message #1665791
Posted By: Jim Dixon
10-Feb-06 - 12:54 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Waits Wassail or Leeds Waits Wassail
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waits Wassail or Leeds Waits Wassail
Searching for "God rest you merry, gentlemen" or "God rest ye merry, gentlemen" at Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads yields 30 or so examples of broadsides with songs that begin this way. I only looked at a few of them, and they were more or less the familiar carol whose verse ends "tidings of comfort and joy." An intrepid investigator might want to look further than I did.