Dance
you maidens, dance you young men
Be
you full of joy and good cheer
Hark the piper and the harper
Merrily
playing, greet the new year
Join
the dance and join the chorus
See
the Yule log burning high
How
the fire leaps with gladness
Wassail, wassail, health
unto you!
May your days be merry!
Wassail, wassail, health
unto you
All the years of your
life!
Hail
the hall’s lord, hail the lady
Hail
their hospitality!
Let
us gather all together
‘Round
the table joyfully
Praise
the bounty of the harvest
Laid
in feast before us here
Gifts
of earth and gifts of labor
Hunger’s
bite we shall not fear
Wassail, wassail, health
unto you!
May your days be merry!
Wassail, wassail, health
unto you
All the years of your
life!
Shortest
days are now upon us,
And
the ground is covered with snow,
And
the nights are dark and bitter,
And
the frozen winds do blow
But
the sun shall rise tomorrow
Oh!
The dawn is golden and bright!
See
the sunbeams dancing, gleaming
At
the coming of the light!
Wassail, wassail, health
unto you!
May your days be merry!
Wassail, wassail, health
unto you
All the years of your
life!
Copyright © 2006 by Hilla Hamasdohtor (Pamela A. Wolff)