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24 Feb 10 - 12:12 PM (#2848835) Subject: Folklore: still collecting wassail songs send em o From: *#1 PEASANT* Have any good wassail songs. Looking for them still. Send them on in here. http://www.cbladey.com/wassong.html |
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24 Feb 10 - 02:26 PM (#2848986) Subject: RE: Folklore: still collecting wassail songs send em o From: Tradsinger Here being where? |
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24 Feb 10 - 09:20 PM (#2849428) Subject: RE: Folklore: still collecting wassail songs send em o From: *#1 PEASANT* post em here or e.mail to cbladey@veizon.net I have most of the ordinary ones all that are in the DT so check there first. Many thanks Conrad |
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25 Feb 10 - 03:55 AM (#2849574) Subject: RE: Still collecting wassail songs send em on in. From: Tradsinger If you go to http://www.myspace.com/glosfolk you can hear the Brockweir (Gloucestershire) wassail. Tradsinger |
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25 Feb 10 - 11:06 AM (#2849856) Subject: RE: Still collecting wassail songs send em on in. From: *#1 PEASANT* thanks for the tip |
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25 Feb 10 - 11:36 AM (#2849884) Subject: RE: Still collecting wassail songs send em on in. From: RTim Wow - Brockweir is pretty remote! I had to look on a map to find it, and I thought I knew the area very well - but it is truely out there! Gwilym, did you record it, if so, when? Tim Radford |
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25 Feb 10 - 01:05 PM (#2849972) Subject: RE: Still collecting wassail songs send em on in. From: Tradsinger The actual recording was made locally by a Mr Simpson in about 1960 and passed on to me. I never met Charlie Williams, but Bob Patten and Andrew Taylor did visit him in the 70s and recorded several songs from him including the wassail. My group Puzzlejug recorded the Brockweir wassail. Follow the 'Let us be Merry' link on http://www.cmarge.demon.co.uk/Properjob/index.html Enjoy Tradsinger |
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25 Feb 10 - 02:07 PM (#2850038) Subject: RE: Still collecting wassail songs send em on in. From: ClaireBear Do you want only mists-of-time traditional wassails, or would you like, for example, the Berkeley Wassail, which my friend Jon Berger wrote for the wassail in Berkeley, California, that the two of us started about 30 years ago? (Come to think of it, 30 years is mists-of-time traditional by California standards.) C |
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25 Feb 10 - 02:24 PM (#2850051) Subject: ADD: Homeless Wassail (Ian Robb) From: RTim There is also - the Homeless Wassail by Ian Robb Tim Radford HOMELESS WASSAIL Words and Music © Ian Robb 1996 "Wassail, wassail all over the town Our cup is white and our ale is brown" But huddled on this iron grate We poor and hungry curse our fate CHORUS No wassail bowl for such as these No turkey scraps, no ale nor cheese This Christmas eve our hearts' desire Is a bottle of gin and a trashcan fire Good Christian mind, as home you go With dreams of holly and mistletoe, That the holly bears a dreadful thorn For those who wake to a frozen dawn Oh, where is he, that holy child Once born of Mary, meek and mild? And whither peace, goodwill to men Now and for evermore, amen? All ye who dine with face aglow In Reginensi atrio Pray pause awhile at pleasure's door And sup some sorrow with the poor "Wassail, wassail all over the town Our cup is white and our ale is brown" This cold and hunger, pain and care Sweet Jesus Christ, it's hard to bear! Finest Kind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFI1x3vc264 Nowell Sing We Clear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e6GuLbbX-I |
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25 Feb 10 - 02:30 PM (#2850055) Subject: RE: Still collecting wassail songs send em on in. From: ClaireBear #1 PEASANT* -- did you truly mean veizon.net, or did you mean verizon.net? |
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26 Feb 10 - 07:21 AM (#2850653) Subject: RE: Still collecting wassail songs send em on in. From: Susan of DT Conrad: There are 15 wassail songs in the DT, mostly with filenames beginning with "wass": WASSAPPL Apple Tree Wassail WASSBELY Belly Wassail WASS12 Carol for the Twelfth Day WASSCORN Cornish Wassail WASGLOUC Gloucestershire Wassail WASSGOW Gower Wassail WASSBUD Here We Come a Wassailing WASSCOME Here We Come a Wassailing (2) WASSUMNR The Haywood Sumner Wassail Song HOMEWASS Homeless Wassail HUMBWASS Humboldt Wassail Song WASSFOX Old Fox Wassail WASSOMER Somerset Wassail SOUTHWAS Southrepps Wassail Song TWASSAIL The Trucn Wassail Song |
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26 Feb 10 - 08:12 AM (#2850693) Subject: RE: Still collecting wassail songs send em on in. From: GUEST,#1 PEASANT yes I have all of the wassails from the DT already If you have a song that you wrote and would not mind having included in the biggest primary reference on Wassail music and customs and literature......ever published...please feel free to e.mail me the lyrics, simple one line melody notation and the all important permission to publish. If you have an obscure one please include whatever references you have. i do not expect any money to come out of this and the book will be maybe three to four volumes- really so cant promise free books maybe a discount or at cost or something- however no doubt much fame..... send contributions to cbladey@verizon.net also- testimonials concerning your wassail celebrations will also be welcome. Important to provide permissions. The book will cover contemporary practice a growing portion. Many thanks for your kind assistance. This work has been a long struggle finally seeing the tunnel looking for the end of it. Conrad |
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26 Feb 10 - 08:28 AM (#2850703) Subject: RE: Still collecting wassail songs send em on in. From: Cats Mike O'Connor has written 2 wassail songs, Rillaton Wassail for my trees here and Wassail the Silver apple for my trees at the other house. Try contacting him at Lyngham House music |
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26 Feb 10 - 08:32 AM (#2850706) Subject: RE: Still collecting wassail songs send em on in. From: Jack Blandiver Thanks for that Charlie Williams link, Tradsinger - absolutely beautiful! |
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13 Jan 12 - 06:26 PM (#3290257) Subject: RE: Still collecting wassail songs send em on in. From: Tradsinger Today I visited a chap in Gloucestershire who collected wassails in the early 70s and he has lent me cassette tapes and notes on 3 unpublished versions, 2 from Gloucestershire and one from Wiltshire. They will eventually appear on http://www.gloschristmas.com/ once they have been transcribed. Tradsinger |
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07 Jul 18 - 02:23 PM (#3935964) Subject: ADD: The Berkeley Wassail (Jon Berger) From: GUEST,diplocase THE BERKELEY WASSAIL (words and music Jon Berger) With pipe and with fiddle, with drummed with bell, We sing our Wassail, me boys, to wish you all well. Long life and good fortune to all who live here -- God bless you and send you a happy New Year. Through weeds and through snow we have come to your door A small drop of porter is all we implore And then we will sing with all proper decorum; The Yeast and teh barley drive sorrows before 'em. Some nutmeg and ginger to make us all merry, Or whiskey or brandy or cyder or sherry. Strong drink and its virtues our songs will extoll, So bring us a bottle and fill up our bowl. Come join in our Wassail and raise up your voice For now is the season to sing and rejoice, And number your blessings, the great and the small Good friends and companions the greatest of all. As scored, the final line is sun canon-like, with the men beginning (bless you and send you a happy new year, God bless you and send you a happy new year. God.). They are joined after a bar by the altos (bless you and send you, God bless you and send you a happy new year). The sopranos come in after a bar (bless you and send you happy new year) so that all three parts are singing that phrase together to end the song.
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