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Thread #107120   Message #2218493
Posted By: Anglo
18-Dec-07 - 06:19 PM
Thread Name: Wassail Song in Sharp 100 English Songs
Subject: RE: Wassail Song in Sharp 100 English Songs
Hi Doug,

This is the version Sharp took down from Harry Richards (69) of Curry Rivel, Somerset. 6 Jan. 1909.
His words (according to Maud Karpeles' "Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folksongs"), are pretty much the same. Except in v.2, "O maid, O maid, with your glove and your mask," in 101 Sharp replaces "mask" with "mace" to rhyme with "face"; and v.4, "With your roast beef, your porrops and your pin," he replaces "pin" with "pies."

Sorry, but my mum never made porrops, so I don't know what they are either.