[ti:prologue winter song] [ar:齐豫] [00:08.111]This is the truning of the year [00:50.607]The final scene before the curtain falls [00:52.758]The squirrel warm within his bed of leaves [00:59.875]Can not hear the wind that blows around the chimney pots [01:02.625]Are like the pilgrim of the year gone by [01:08.736]He sleeps [01:17.496]Once he was a young man [01:18.949]Who loved in the spring [01:21.299]And lay beneath the upturn sky on long hot summer days [01:24.150]But with autume he grows mellow [01:29.08]He looks over his shoulder down the long year path of no return [01:36.824]Already he's but a memory fading like a shadow on the wall [01:39.875]But time with restless footsteps hurries by [01:45.745]And now beside the road [01:49.804]There stands the pilgrim of the year to be [02:42.851]Falling leaves turn to gold [02:54.109]Silver flowers on my window [03:05.31]Spirit of the fading year gently slips away [03:11.917]He knows no where [03:18.572]He cannot see [03:25.877]Naked trees in the sky [03:35.300]Stars are shinning clear and cold [03:49.250]Minstrel of the ages sings of words so long ago [03:56.54]That age-old tune without a name [04:07.865]No one knows [04:12.325]In the white falling snow [04:16.991]The pilgrim travels on [04:21.547]His face toward the sun [04:27.149]Beyond the open road he travels on [04:32.655]Pass the lamp shinning windows [04:39.666]Faces by the fire [04:45.171]Before the midnight hour [04:48.973]Christmas time has come around again [05:03.101]Go to sleep little child [05:19.518]Go to sleep little child you shounldn't be awake [05:24.725]Go to sleep little child [05:30.652]Time to let the night go by [05:34.552]Waiting for the sound a magic sleigh [05:43.108]The chimney is not too tall they say [05:46.63]Or the roof too high for a reindeer to fly [05:53.247]No not too high for a reindeer to fly