When December comes around each year We've Been a While a Wandering is sung by the Tyneside Maritime Chorus of which I was a proud 3-year member. It is a wassail song to be sung from door-to-door and there are several versions. In all the versions there is a common verse of:
We are not daily beggars that beg from door to door
We are your neighbour's children for we've been here before
This song may be found in the Tyneside Maritime Chorus songbook

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