WASSAIL SONG, THE

Created on 24/09/2022
Latest update on 14/10/2022

Artist: English Singers
Author: trad./Ralph Vaughn-Williams
Label: Roycroft
Year: 1928

Roud #209 (also as (Apple Tree) Wassail Song, Here We Come A-Caroling en Here We Come A-Wassailing).

Covers:

1936:

Phil Tanner [as The Gower Wassail Song; Tanner lived on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales; reissued on volume England of Alan Lomax series World Library Of Folk And Primitive Music ('98 - Rounder)]

1949:

Jean Ritchie [Lomax recording]

1959:

Perry Como [as Here We Come A-Caroling]

1965:

Watersons [as Here We Come A-Wassailing]

1968:

Tennessee Ernie Ford

1969:

Shirley & Dolly Collins

1972:

Steeleye Span [as Gower Wassail]

1975:

Watersons [as Apple Tree Wassail]

1990:

Albion Dance Band [as Here We Come A-Wassailing]

1992:

Blur

2008:

Kate Rusby [as Here We Come A-Wassailing]

2019:

Chicago [as Here We Come A-Caroling]

2020:

Blackmore's Night [idem]

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