Today is the feast day of St. Egwin of Worcester-- an Anglo Saxon saint about whom little is known. I thought it would be appropriate to post a wassail song, in honour of St. Egwin; yesterday's song is one of the oldest specifically Christmas song. However, the tradition of wassailing predates Christianity and its roots are Anglo Saxon. I thought this version of The Apple Tree Wassail to be rather good - and, perhaps, a welcome and robust change from the more chant and polyphony sort of things that have been featured here of late:
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