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08 Dec 01 - 09:06 PM (#606506) Subject: Waits Wassail or Leeds Waits Wassail From: *#1 PEASANT* Looking for Waits Wassail or Leeds Waits Wassail lyrics and tune cant remember seeing this before- reference here. http://www.tayara.com/earlymusic/9900/waits3.htm Many thanks in advance for your kind assitance... Conrad |
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05 Feb 06 - 05:45 AM (#1662003) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waits Wassail or Leeds Waits Wassail From: GUEST,al_the_piper@btinternet.com The melody is at http://www.waits.org.uk/music/leeds.htm and the words are those of the standard carol "Here we come a-wassailing". |
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05 Feb 06 - 08:09 PM (#1662539) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waits Wassail or Leeds Waits Wassail From: Malcolm Douglas This is an old and -until now- forgotten thread, and Conrad's old reference is long disappeared. However, I can add to Al's recent comments. The Yorkshire musical historian and folksong collector Frank Kidson published words and music in one of his 1887 Leeds Mercury articles. 'The most popular wassail song in Leeds', he said, 'is the following:' God rest you merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas Day For it is the Christmas time, And we travel far and near; So God bless you and send you A happy new year. We are not daily beggars That beg from door to door; But we are neighbours's children, Whom you have seen before. For it is the Christmas time... God bless the master of this house, The mistress also, And all the little children That round the table go. For it is the Christmas time... Call up the butler of this house, Put on his golden ring; Let him bring us a glass of beer, And better we shall sing. For it is the Christmas time... We've got a little purse Made of stretching leather skin; We want a little of your money To line it well within. For it is the Christmas time... 'There are many more verses', wrote Kidson. 'The stretching capabilities of the purse are always strongly emphasised.' No source is given for the notation at the Waits site mentioned above, and the approximate 1800 date doesn't necessarily refer to the example given (see the contributor's original, rather vague comments at http://www.waits.org.uk/notes&queries/archive2002.htm#Leeds Waits Wassail). It is, however, much the same in essentials as the example published by Kidson. |
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10 Feb 06 - 12:54 AM (#1665791) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waits Wassail or Leeds Waits Wassail From: Jim Dixon 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. |
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10 Feb 06 - 03:45 PM (#1666316) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waits Wassail or Leeds Waits Wassail From: nutty There's also this . Collected by FW MOORMAN and published in his 'YORKSHIRE DIALECT POEMS' 1916/17 A Christmas Wassail(1) Here we coom a-wessellin(2) Among the leaves so green, An' here we coom a-wanderin' So fair as to be seen. Chorus- An' to your' wessel An' to jolly wessel, Love an' joy be to you An' to your wessel-tree. The wessel-bob(3) is made O' rosemary tree, An' so is your beer O' the best barley. An' to your wessel, etc. Weare not beggars' childeren That begs from door to door, But we are neighbours' childeren That has been here before. An' to your wessel, etc. We have got a little purse Made i' ratchin(4) leather skin, An' we want a little money To line it well within. An' to your wessel, etc. Bring us out your table An' spread it wi' a cloth; Bring us out your mouldy cheese Likewise your Christmas loaf. An' to your wessel, etc. God bless the master o' this house, Likewise the mistress too; An' all the little childeren That round the table go. An' to your wessel, etc. Good master an' good' misteress, While you're sittin' by the fire Pray, think of us poor childeren That's wanderin' i' the mire. An' to your wessel, etc. 1. From Easther and Lees, Almondbury and Huddersfield Glossary (English Dialect Society Publications, vol. 39, pp. xvii.-xviii). 2. Wassailing. 3. Wassail-bough. 4. Urchin, hedgehog. |
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07 Dec 09 - 01:08 AM (#2782612) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waits Wassail or Leeds Waits Wassail From: GUEST http://www.townwaits.org.uk/music/leeds.jpg |
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07 Dec 09 - 01:09 AM (#2782613) Subject: No lyrics there. Just notation. From: GUEST,999 |
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07 Dec 09 - 03:54 AM (#2782654) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waits Wassail or Leeds Waits Wassail From: Geoff the Duck Just to make things neater, I have found archived copies of the first dead link at The Internet Archive - BLICKY. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine can be found at http://www.archive.org/web/web.php. Sometimes you can find pages from dead or vanished web sites by pasting the dead link into the Wayback Machine. Quack! GtD. |
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18 Mar 21 - 03:27 PM (#4098240) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Waits Wassail or Leeds Waits Wassail From: GUEST,# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph23EXNotMw It is sung there where the notes refer to it as a piece from the 1600s. |
