Gower Wassail

A wassail, a wassail throughout all this town

Our cup it is white and our ale it is brown

Our wassail is made of the good ale and true

Some nutmeg and ginger it’s the best we can brew

fol the dol, fol the dol de dol, fol the dol de dol, fol the dol de dee, fol de dero, fol de daddy, sing tu ru li do

Our wassail is made of an elderberry bough

And so my good neighbour we’ll drink unto thou.

Besides all of that, you’ll have apples in store,

Pray let us come in for it’s cold by the door.

We hope that your apple trees prosper and bear

So we may have cider when we call next year

And where you’ve one barrel, we hope you’ll have ten,

So we may have cider when we come again.

We know by the moon that we are not too soon

We know by the stars that we are not too far

We know by the sky that we are not too high,

And we know by the ground that we are within sound.