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MUMMERS DANCE

song by

LOREENA MCKENNITT


When in the spring

time of the year

When the trees are crowned with leaves

When the ash and oak

and birch and yew

Are dressed in ribbons' fair



When owls call

the breathless moon

In the blue veil of the night

The shadows of

the trees appear

Amidst the lantern light



We've been rambling all the night

And some time of this day

Now returning back again

We bring a garland gay



Who will go down

to those shady groves

And summon the shadows there

And tie a ribbon

on those sheltering arms

In the springtime of the year



The songs of birds

seem to fill the wood

That when the fiddler plays

All their voices

can be heard

Long past their woodland days



And so they linked

their hands and danced

Round in circles and in rows

And so the journey

of the night descends

When all the shades are gone



A garland gay

we bring you here

And at your door we stand

It is a sprout

well budded out

The work of our lord's Hand




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