Somerset Wassail John Rutter arr Cambridge Singers

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'Somerset Wassail' John Rutter (arr.) • From ‘The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album’ • Composer John Rutter (arr.) • Conductor John Rutter • Choir The Cambridge Singers • Buy, download or stream: https://lnk.to/CSingersXmasAlbum • Buy sheet music: https://bit.ly/3BgUcLn • Find more of the catalogue and curated playlists by subscribing to the channel: • http://bit.ly/2uQMe9P • Social Media Links: • Facebook: / johnruttermusic • Twitter: / johnmrutter • Instagram: / johnrutter.composer • Website: https://www.johnrutter.com • Somerset Wassail • This rollicking ditty is a folk carol collected by Cecil Sharp, and is notable for one of the most quaintly obscure lines in all carol literature: ‘The girt dog of Langport he burnt his long tail’. Sharp believed it referred to the eighth-century Danish invasion of that Somerset village. According to another theory, the girt ( = great) dog was a spectral hound. • LYRICS: • Wassail, and wassail, all over the town! • The cup it is white and the ale it is brown; • The cup it is made of the good ashen tree, • And so is the malt of the best barley: • For it’s your wassail, and it’s our wassail! • And it’s joy be to you, and a jolly wassail! • O master and mistress, are you all within? • Pray open the door and let us come in; • O master and mistress a-sitting by the fire, • Pray think upon poor trav’llers, a-trav’lling in the mire. • O where is the maid, with the silver-headed pin, • To open the door, and let us come in? • O master and mistress, it is our desire • A good loaf and cheese, and a toast by the fire. • The girt dog of Langport he burnt his long tail, • And this is the night we go singing wassail: • O master and mistress, now we must be gone; • God bless all in this house till we do come again. • English traditional carol arranged by John Rutter • The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album • John Rutter selects some of his favourite Christmas carols, old and new, from classic Cambridge Singers recordings, including several of his own arrangements, closing with Vaughan Williams' majestic 'Fantasia on Christmas Carols'. • John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1983) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols. • Contact • [email protected]

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