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Wassail song (Hampton Fields)

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Performer: Chidlaw, Richard
Place Collected: Hampton Fields
Date collected: 2011 (20 Mar)
Collector: Davies, Gwilym
Roud Number: 209

The hamlet of Hampton Fields, near Minchinhampton, had its own wassail song and custom.  Richard Chidlaw was told by Billy Cox of Avening on 3 October 1973 that the wassailers carried a bowl with long ribbons and a fox’s tail.  When they took the bowl into the pub, they had to pull back the ribbons to put drink into the bowl.  There is no archive recording of Billy, but Richard Chidlaw noted the tune and some verses.

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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)
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 both parts