| [00:00.00] | Loreena McKennitt - The Seasons |
| [00:16.79] | Traditional English, arranged by Loreena McKennitt |
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| [00:20.79] | Come all you lads and lasses, |
| [00:23.45] | I'd have you give attention |
| [00:26.20] | To these few lines I'm about to write here, |
| [00:32.67] | 'Tis of the four seasons of the year that I shall mention, |
| [00:38.43] | The beauty of all things doth appear. |
| [00:45.08] | And now you are young and all in your prosperity, |
| [00:51.38] | Come cheer up your hearts and revive like the spring |
| [00:58.53] | Join off in pairs like the birds in February |
| [01:04.27] | That St. Valentine's Day it forth do bring. |
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| [01:20.33] | Then cometh Spring, which all the land doth nourish; |
| [01:25.87] | The fields are beginning to be decked with green, |
| [01:32.55] | The trees put forth their buds |
| [01:34.97] | and the blossoms they do flourish, |
| [01:38.03] | And the tender blades of corn on the earth are to be seen. |
| [01:44.32] | Don't you see the little lambs by the dams a-playing? |
| [01:50.50] | The cuckoo is singing in the shady grove. |
| [01:57.57] | The flowers they are springing, |
| [02:00.24] | the maids they go a-Maying, |
| [02:03.43] | In love all hearts seem now to move. |
| [02:10.76] | |
| [02:18.92] | Next cometh Autumn with the sun so hot and piercing; |
| [02:25.38] | The sportsman goes forth with his dog and his gun |
| [02:32.17] | To fetch down the woodcock, |
| [02:35.14] | the partridge and the pheasant, |
| [02:38.15] | For health and for profit as well as for fun. |
| [02:44.42] | Behold, with loaded apple-trees the farmer is befriended, |
| [02:50.62] | They will fill up his casks that have long laid dry. |
| [02:57.81] | All nature seems to weary now, |
| [03:01.56] | her task is nearly ended, |
| [03:05.01] | And more of the seasons will come by and by. |
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| [03:30.28] | When night comes on with song |
| [03:32.74] | and tale we pass the wintry hours; |
| [03:37.77] | By keeping up a cheerful heart we hope for better days. |
| [03:44.92] | We tend the cattle, sow the seed, |
| [03:47.98] | give work unto the ploughers, |
| [03:51.39] | With patience wait till winter yields |
| [03:54.57] | before the sun's fair rays. |
| [03:58.13] | And so the world goes round and round, |
| [04:01.69] | and every time and season |
| [04:05.00] | With pleasure and with profit |
| [04:07.39] | crowns the passage of the year, |
| [04:12.09] | And so through every time of life, |
| [04:15.23] | to him who acts with reason, |
| [04:19.42] | The beauty of all things doth appear. |
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