Wassail, wassail

from Old Christmas Returned by Passamezzo

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17thC Wassail song for Twelfth Night

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Wassail, wassail, our jolly wassail is thus to be understood,
Tis a health to the good, but the bad it doth provoke ‘em
With the slanders and lies and projects they devise, the Devil choke ‘em,
With a wassail, a jolly wassail.
Bring the wassail bowl away, and cast yourselves into a ring.
Give the ale leave to wave the spice, room to play,
And hush, no words but what we sing.
Kneel down, and drink a health unto the King.
With peace and mirth, and wealth to the state,
Drink in wood to our drinking in plate.
Anon, 17thC

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from Old Christmas Returned, released March 2, 2017
Eleanor Cramer: Soprano
Robin Jeffrey: Lute
Alison Kinder: Bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: Alto
Michael Palmer: Baritone

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Passamezzo London, UK

London based early music ensemble specialising in English 16th and 17th repertoire.

Early modern music, song, ballads, theatre & dance. Viols, lute, voices, violin, recorders, harp. Christmas, Elizabethan, Tudors, Stuarts

Part of the intercultural project 'Shore to Shore', working with Moroccan Sufi musicians, Ensemble Mogador.
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