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If she had been the Mistletoe
And I had been the Rose-
How gay upon your table
My velvet life to close!
Since I am of the Druid-
And she is of the dew-
I’ll deck Tradition’s buttonhole-
And send the Rose to you.
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Wassail, Wassail
04:32
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Wassail, wassail
Our wassail bowl
Our wassail bowl
A jolly wassail-bowl,
A wassail of good ale,
Well fare the butler's soul,
That setteth this to sale;
Our jolly wassail.
Good dame, here at your door
Our wassail we begin,
We are all maidens poor,
We pray now let us in,
With our wassail.
Our wassail we do fill
With apples and with spice,
Then grant us your good will
To taste here once or twice
Of our wassail.
If any maidens be
Here dwelling in this house,
They kindly will agree
To take a full carouse,
Of our wassail.
But here they let us stand
All freezing in the cold:
Good master give command
To enter and be bold,
With our wassail.
This is our merry night
Of choosing king and queen,
Then be it your delight
That something may be seen,
In our wassail.
And now we must be gone
To seek out more good cheer,
Where bounty will be shown,
And we have found it here,
With our wassail.
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Greensleeves
04:35
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Alas my love you do me wrong
To cast me off discourteously
For I have loved you well and long
Delighting in your company
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Lady Greensleeves
Your vows you’ve broken like my heart
Oh why did you so enrapture me
Now I remain in a world apart
But my heart remains in captivity
I have been ready at your hand
To grant whatever you would crave;
I have both wagered life and land
Your love and goodwill for to have.
If you intend thus to disdain
It does the more enrapture me
And even so I still remain
A lover in captivity
My men were clothed all in green
And they did ever wait on thee
All this was galant to be seen
And yet thou would not love me
Thou could desire no earthly thing
But still thou had it readily
Thy music still to play and sing
And yet thou would not love me
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Lacrymosa Variations
04:55
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Shchedryk
03:39
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Valentine Wolfe Greenville, South Carolina
Two morbidly fascinated musicians combining ambient solo bass, brutal distortion, electronica, and 18th century opera to tell a story of the macabre.
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