The Brazil family of Gloucester are a Romany traveller family with deep ancient roots in the English tradition - a family of 15 brothers and sisters who until the 1970s at any rate had maintained an extensive repertoire of traditional songs and ballads. Folk song collector Peter Shepheard met the family in the 1960s and recorded more than 100 songs, ballads and tunes from Tom, Hyram, Lemmie, Harry, Alice (Webb) and Danny, as well as Doris Davies (Harry's daughter), her twin daughters Debbie and Pennie, and Alice Webb's son. Another brother Weenie (Selphinus) and his family were recorded by Hamish Henderson on the berryfields of Balirgowrie in the 1950s.

Sister Lemmie turned out to have a great many songs and also played the melodeon.  Visiting her caravan, first at Newent and then at sites around Gloucester was always a novel experience for she had no cooking stove in her caravan but would always offer tea, a kettle boiled up on a primus stove on the floor by the door - so that it could be thrown out of the door if it flared up - which on one occasion it did - and with the addition of condensed milk poured from a pierced tin into the cup with the tea.  But it was always a pleasure.  Many songs and ballads from the classic English folk song tradition would flow from her memory such as Rolling in the Dew, Barbary Allen and The Cruel Mother and often some incredibly unusual songs too, such as Shot Like a Bird on a Tree, an English song of which only two or three fragmentary versions are known, one from Newfoundland and a fuller one from Ireland, and the rare and bawdy Bonny Black Hare.

Here she sings a version of a Wassailing song that was traditionally sung by a goup of singers travelling from door to door at Christmas time - the song being rewarded by a drink of ale and perhaps some food. The word 'wassail' comes from the Anglo-Saxon phrase 'waes hael', which means 'good health'. 

In her younger days Lemmie had played fiddle as well as melodeon and also step danced. Her tune that she called God Killed the Devil O (that probably also had words) is a version of the Scottish tune Monymusk.

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The Wassail celebration involves Christmas revellers taking a Wassail bowl, usually a large wooden vessel from house to house to distribute good cheer. This version was recorded in 1972 from 82 year old Lemmie Brazil - a member of a large Gypsy traveller family in Gloucester. The song is followed by Lemmie playing a tune that she calls 'God Killed the Devil O' - played on her single row melodeon. The tune is a version of the Scottish tune 'Moneymusk'. 

Wassail Song
From the singing of Lemmy Brazil, Gloucester 26 December 1972. Collected by Peter Shepheard (Springthyme 67.8.3).

He said I ain’t come here not to beg or not to borrow,
I have come here just to drive away my sorrow,
A bit of your good cake an’ a drop of your strong beer,
An’ I hope you merry Chrissemas an’ a happy New Year.

Come all you lucky gentlemen that sits around the fire,
Remember us poor wassailers who walks through muddy mire,
A bit o’ your good cake and a drop o’ your strong beer,
An’ I hope you merry Chrissemas an’ a happy New Year.

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The Wassail celebration involves Christmas revellers taking a Wassail bowl, usually a large wooden vessel from house to house to distribute good cheer. This version was recorded in 1972 from Lemmie Brazil - a member of a large Gypsy traveller family in Gloucester. A near complete collection of the songs and music of the family is available as a 3CD set on the Musical Traditions label: The Brazil Family: Down by the Old Riverside - although this song was not included. But here it is sung by the 82 year old Lemmie:

Wassail Song
From the singing of Lemmy Brazil, Gloucester 26 December 1972.  Collected by Peter Shepheard  (Springthyme 67.8.3). 

He said I ain’t come here not to beg or not to borrow,
I have come here just to drive away my sorrow,
A bit of your good cake an’ a drop of your strong beer,
An’ I hope you merry Chrissemas an’ a happy New Year.

Come all you lucky gentlemen that sits around the fire,
Remember us poor wassailers who walks through muddy mire,
A bit o’ your good cake and a drop o’ your strong beer,
An’ I hope you merry Chrissemas an’ a happy New Year.


Lemmie Brazil: Wassail Song

Lemmie Brazil was a member of a large Gypsy traveller family in Gloucester. Like other members of the family, brothers Hyram, Harry, Danny, she had an extensive repertoire of traditional folk songs and tunes. She also played the melodeon and here she plays a tune she called God Killed the Devil O on her single row Hohner melodeon in the key of C. She was 82 years old when she recorded this in her caravan in Gloucester at Christmas 1972 for folk enthusiast and collector Pete Shepheard. Lemmie often played the melodeon for step dancing at which all the family were experts. 

A near complete collection of the songs and music of the family is available as a 3CD set on the Musical Traditions label: The Brazil Family - Down by the Old Riverside. This tune is related to the Scottish strathspey Monymusk and is the fourth track on the first CD. 
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Lemmie Brazil: God Killed The Devil O

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Springthyme is a record label dedicated to presenting Scotland's living tradition in song and music. Founded in 1974 by musician and singer Pete Shepheard, the label has introduced many fine singers, musicians to the world of recorded music. The very first album was recorded during the weekend traditional music festival held in Kinross in 1973 with musicians including Aly Bain and Tom Anderson and the Shetland Fiddlers and the first recording of ballad singer Stanley Robertson of Aberdeen. Other artistes on Springthyme include Jim Reid, The Foundry Bar Band, Ossian, Jock Duncan, Bill Black, Duncan Williamson, Lizzie Higgins, Jim Crawford, Tom Hughes, John Watt & Davey Stewart, Iain McLachlan and many more including a CD from Pete's own band Shepheard, Spiers & Watson. Springthyme has also issued recordings from their field recordings archive in cooperation with the Musical Traditions label.