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Posted By: *#1 PEASANT*
01-Jul-10 - 06:31 AM
Thread Name: Southrups Wassail Song which recording
Subject: RE: Southrups Wassail Song which recording
It does exist but on what recording here is part of a thread about kipper tunes
3242 SOUTHRUPS WASSAIL SONG The name of the village is Southrepps, which is in North Norfolk, about 1 mile east of the A149 Cromer to North Walsham road and three miles WNW of Trunch, the home of the Kipper family. The version in the DT has so many differences to the recording that it is easier to give that in whole, rather than point out each individual variation.
All on this pleasant morning from Southrepps come we To ask a bag of sugar to sweeten our tea. If you can't spare a bag, then cupfull will do. And if you can't spare that, well, bugger you.
The master of this house in his rusty old chain Will stamp and swear and curse and he'll bitterly complain. He'll say he's most offended with his house we're bein' so bold, And if he had his way, we'd be left out in the cold.
The mistress of this house with her stockings all torn Will rant and rave and curse the very hour we were born. And then she'll fall asleep and loudly she will snore. And when her body is at peace we hope her soul's at war
The daughter of this house is a proper little whore, She's had all the blokes round here, and plenty more. And all her little children round the table do go Until they all get dizzy and fall down on the floor.
This house and this arbour are in disrepair. I'd live all in my pigsty as soon as I'd live there. Your men and your maidens are rolling in the dew, Unless they all take care, they'll go down with the flu.
Bad luck to this household, the season begun. Where you had ten apples, may you have one. Now we'll come no more nigh you until the next year, And the last thing we'll do is to wish you good cheer.
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