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Recorded by the Wilson Family in 1991 as “Beggar’s Carol”.
May good luck attend this house and happiness and laughter Love to master and to maid, and all that follow after. Chorus: Let every pan that you have got, Be full of pancakes piping hot, Pancakes hot! Pancakes hot! Pancakes hot! We like pancakes from the pot! Mistress give to us we beg, of all the cakes you cannot eat We will lick your dishes clean, for cakes to us are more than meat. We will play upon the drum, a merry tune we heard in France If you will but give us cakes, to warm our legs so we may dance.