Browse Carols: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # Cornish Wassail 5 1. We stand at your door and we first shall begin To drink the Queen's health as the custom has been And unto the master we wish a good health And hope he may prosper in virtue and wealth To maintain our wassail, Wassail! Wassail! Wassail And joy come to our jolly wassail 2. Now here at your doors we submissively stand With our jolly wassail And our hats in hand We wish perfect health to both master and dame And children and servants we wish you the same 3. In the friendliest manner this house we salute That it is an old custom we need not dispute O ask not the reason from hence it did spring For we very well know 'tis an ancient old thing 4. And to the old town the same thing do we wish We hope all good folk will not take it amiss For us true companions who never will fail To call at your homes with our friendly wassail 5. Come fill our old jolly bowl up to the brim Which ever stands garnished so neat and so trim Sometimes crowned with laurel and sometimes with bay According to custom we'll keep the old way 6. Methinks I can smile when I look at the bowl That just now was empty again becomes full By the hands of good people, long may they remain And live and continue the same to maintain 7. Now for this good liquor to us that you bring We lift up our voices we merrily sing That all good householders may continue still To provide the brown liquor our bowl for to fill 8. Now for this good liquor, your cider, your beer And for the fair kindness that we have had here We return you our thanks and shall still bear in mind How you have been bountiful, loving and kind 9. We wish you great plenty and long time to live Because you are willing and free for to give To our wassail so cheerful, our wassail so bold Long may you live happy, be lusty and old 10. O may all your barley both prosper and grow That you may have barley and beer to bestow And where you have one bushel we hope you'll have ten That you may have beer against we come again 11. And now we will wish you one great blessing more That you trees may bring forth an abundance of store As much as their stocks and their branches can bear That you may have plenty of cider next year 12. O may all your apple trees prosper and bear That you may have cider against the next year That where you've one hogshead we hope you'll have ten That you may have cider when we come again 13. But jolly old Christmas the merry old guest Thou from us are parting which makes us look wisht For all the twelve days are now come to their end And this the last day of the season we spend 14. Now neighbours and strangers you always will find The wassailers courteous, obliging and kind We hope our civility you will approve With a piece of small silver in token of love 15. And for the great kindness that we have received We return you our thanks, and we now take our leave From this present evening we bid you adieu Until the next year and same season ensue Browse Carols: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #