come-all-you

English

Etymology

From the common occurrence in such songs of an exhortation beginning "come all you".

Alternative forms

• come-all-ye

Noun

come-all-you (plural come-all-yous)

1. (dialectal, UK, Ireland) A traditional folk or country song.
   • 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury 2007, p. 3:

     He slapped his thighs and whooped and catcalled, encouraging anyone who knew it to join in the ‘traditional come-all-you’!