Name: The Malpas Wassail (Live)
Duration: P00H04M20S
Description: Multi-layered harmonies rule in what is probably the most spectacular of what A.L.Lloyd calls the "quete songs" of the midwinter season. These were sung at the doors of the upper classes to bring them seasonal good luck, and more importantly, to enable the itinerant singers to receive gilts of the season in return. The Malpas, learned from the Watersons, comes from Cornwall.

The Malpas Wassail (Live)

from This Side Of The Ocean by The Friends of Fiddler’s Green

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Multi-layered harmonies rule in what is probably the most spectacular of what A.L.Lloyd calls the "quete songs" of the midwinter season. These were sung at the doors of the upper classes to bring them seasonal good luck, and more importantly, to enable the itinerant singers to receive gilts of the season in return. The Malpas, learned from the Watersons, comes from Cornwall.

lyrics

Chorus:
• Our wassail
Wassail, wassail
And joy be to our jolly wassail

Oh the harvest being over and Christmas coming on
Please open your door and let us come in
With...

You master and you mistress sitting down at your ease
Put your hands in your pockets and give what you please
TO..

You master and you mistress sitting down at the fire
While we poor wassail boys do trudge through the mire
With..

This ancient old house we will kindly salute
It is the old custom, you need not dispute
With.

There's a bridle and a saddle hanging up on the shelf
If you want any more you can sing it yourself
With..

Here's a health to you master and long may you live
Since you've been so kind and so willing to give
TO...

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from This Side Of The Ocean, released December 28, 2021
Ian - Lead vocals • Grit - Harmony vocals • Chorus - Alistair, Tam, Laurence, Jim, David

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Laurence Stevenson Brighton, Ontario

Having been born in Scotland and moved to Canada in my high school years, my life has followed parallel (but musically related) paths.
A career in radio, firstly as a radio news tech then a sound effects guy to creator of the CBC Radio Experimental Audio Room and finally as an international award winning radio producer for the popular show, Outfront, has been tracked alongside a life as a fiddler. ... more

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