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Here we Come a-Wassailing

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Performer: Bishop, Emily
Place Collected: Bromsberrow Heath
Date collected: 1952 (13 Oct)
Collector: Kennedy, Peter
Roud Number: 209

Although a wassail song and collected in Gloucestershire, Miss Bishop’s wassail song is not part of the Gloucestershire wassail tradition of southern Gloucestershire.  This version is well-known in Yorkshire but generally known throughout England.

Notes by Gwilym Davies 22 July 2015

Media & Downloads

Hear the song/tune as collected (mp3 stream):

See the song/tune as collected (PDF file)
Hear the song/tune (midi file)
Version to sing (PDF file)
Hear a version to sing (midi file)

Hear a modern recording (mp3 stream):

Song/tune as collected (abc file)
Version to sing (abc file)
Arrangement for choir
Arrangement for choir hear the tune
Arrangement for choir hear the harmony
Arrangement for choir hear the two parts