The Mummer's Dance

Song The Mummer's Dance
Artist John Tesh
Album Power Of Love Vol. 2

Lyrics

[00:07.19] The Mummers' Dance (Loreena McKennitt)
[00:38.76]
[01:10.52] When in the springtime of the year
[01:14.48] When the trees are crowned with leaves
[01:18.62] When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
[01:22.67] Are dressed in ribbons fair
[01:25.80]
[01:26.67] When owls call the breathless moon
[01:30.50] In the blue veil of the night
[01:34.67] The shadows of the trees appear
[01:38.52] Amidst the lantern light
[01:42.39]
[01:42.88] We've been rambling all the night
[01:46.71] And some time of this day
[01:50.89] Now returning back again
[01:54.50] We bring a garland gay
[01:59.08]
[02:14.79] Who will go down to those shady groves
[02:18.62] And summon the shadows there
[02:22.63] And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms
[02:26.29] In the springtime of the year
[02:29.51]
[02:30.45] The songs of birds seem to fill the wood
[02:34.16] That when the fiddler plays
[02:38.50] All their voices can be heard
[02:42.11] Long past their woodland days
[02:45.70]
[02:46.68] We've been rambling all the night
[02:50.52] And some time of this day
[02:54.63] Now returning back again
[02:58.23] We bring a garland gay
[03:02.77]
[03:50.36] And so they linked their hands and danced
[03:54.26] Round in circles and in rows
[03:58.41] And so the journey of the night descends
[04:02.19] When all the shades are gone
[04:05.30]
[04:06.50] "A garland gay we bring you here
[04:10.21] And at your door we stand
[04:14.17] It is a sprout well budded out
[04:18.28] The work of our Lord's hand"
[04:21.21]
[04:22.29] We've been rambling all the night
[04:26.09] And some time of this day
[04:29.97] Now returning back again
[04:33.65] We bring a garland gay
[04:37.50]
[04:38.20] We've been rambling all the night
[04:41.98] And some time of this day
[04:45.96] Now returning back again
[04:49.78] We bring a garland gay
[04:57.68]