[ti:The Mummers' Dance]
[ar:Loreena McKennitt]
[al:The Book Of Secrets]
[by:Van]
[offset:500]
[00:00.00]Loreena McKennitt - The Mummers' Dance
[01:01.23]Music and Lyrics: Loreena McKennitt
[01:06.23]
[01:11.23]When in the springtime of the year
[01:14.79]When the trees are crowned with leaves
[01:18.99]When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
[01:23.08]Are dressed in ribbons fair
[01:26.00]
[01:27.14]When owls call the breathless moon
[01:30.85]In the blue veil of the night
[01:35.07]The shadows of the trees appear
[01:39.07]Amidst the lantern light
[01:42.09]
[01:43.29]We've been rambling all the night
[01:46.79]And some time of this day
[01:51.07]Now returning back again
[01:54.88]We bring a garland gay
[01:58.88]
[02:15.22]Who will go down to those shady groves
[02:18.76]And summon the shadows there
[02:22.77]And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms
[02:26.56]In the springtime of the year
[02:29.44]
[02:30.66]The songs of birds seem to fill the wood
[02:34.61]That when the fiddler plays
[02:38.76]All their voices can be heard
[02:42.16]Long past their woodland days
[02:45.71]
[02:46.76]We've been rambling all the night
[02:50.46]And some time of this day
[02:54.49]Now returning back again
[02:58.36]We bring a garland gay
[03:02.47]
[03:49.97]And so they linked their hands and danced
[03:53.82]Round in circles and in rows
[03:58.01]And so the journey of the night descends
[04:01.94]When all the shades are gone
[04:05.14]
[04:06.13]"A garland gay we bring you here
[04:09.79]And at your door we stand
[04:13.89]It is a sprout well budded out
[04:17.84]The work of our Lord's hand"
[04:20.93]
[04:22.09]We've been rambling all the night
[04:25.67]And some time of this day
[04:29.74]Now returning back again
[04:33.55]We bring a garland gay
[04:37.45]We've been rambling all the night
[04:41.37]And some time of this day
[04:45.34]Now returning back again
[04:49.19]We bring a garland gay
[04:53.30]
[05:35.61]
[06:00.69]END
