Gloucestershire Wassail
A traditional wassailing song from Gloucestershire.
- Wassail, wassail, all over the town
- Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown,
- Our bowl it is made of the white maple tree,
- With the wassailing bowl, we'll drink to thee.
- Drink to thee, drink to thee,
- With a wassailing bowl we'll drink to thee.
- And here is to Dobbin and to his right eye,
- Pray God send our master a good Christmas pie,
- A good Christmas pie that may we all see,
- With a wassailing bowl, we'll drink to thee.
- Drink to thee, drink to thee,
- With a wassailing bowl we'll drink to thee.
- And here is to Broad May and to her broad horn,
- May God send our master a good crop of corn,
- A good crop of corn that may we all see,
- With a wassailing bowl, we'll drink to thee.
- Drink to thee, drink to thee,
- With a wassailing bowl we'll drink to thee.
- And here is to Fillpail and to her left ear,
- Pray God send our master a happy New Year,
- A happy New Year as e'er he did see,
- With a wassailing bowl, we'll drink to thee.
- Drink to thee, drink to thee,
- With a wassailing bowl we'll drink to thee.
- And here is to Colly and to her long tail,
- Pray God send our master a good cask of ale,
- A good cask of ale that may we all see,
- With a wassailing bowl, we'll drink to thee.
- Drink to thee, drink to thee,
- With a wassailing bowl we'll drink to thee.
- Come butler, come fill us a bowl of the best,
- They I pray that your soul in heaven may rest,
- But if you do bring us a bowl of the small,
- May the devil take butler, bowl and all.
- Bowl and all, bowl and all,
- May the devil take butler, bowl and all.
- Then here's to the maid in the lily-white smock,
- Who tripped to the door and slipped back the lock,
- Who tripped to the door and pulled back the pin,
- For to let these jolly wassailers in.
- Wassailers in, wassailers in,
- For to let these jolly wassailers in.