Dancing At Whitsun-The Dubliners

[ti:Dancing At Whitsun] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:40 Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dancing At Whitsun - The Dubliners [00:13.23]It's fifty longs springtimes [00:15.66] [00:16.86]Since she was a bride [00:19.79] [00:20.56]And still you may see her at each whitsuntide [00:26.97] [00:28.10]In a dress of white linen and ribbons of green [00:32.50] [00:34.26]As green as her memories of loving [00:38.85] [00:42.17]The that were nimble [00:44.12] [00:45.57]Tread carefully now [00:48.61] [00:49.12]As gentle a measure as age will allow [00:55.04] [00:56.77]Through groves of white blossoms un fields of young [01:00.42]Corn [01:01.35] [01:03.00]Where once she was pledged to her true love [01:08.05] [01:10.67]The fields they stand empty [01:12.88] [01:14.33]The hedges grow go free [01:17.09] [01:17.96]No young men to turn them [01:20.63] [01:21.66]Or pastures go see seed [01:24.18] [01:25.32]They are gone where the forest of oak trees before [01:30.23] [01:31.52]Have gone to be wasted in battle [01:36.79] [02:07.13]Down from the green farmlands [02:09.48] [02:10.88]And from their loved ones [02:13.66] [02:14.55]Marched husbands and brothers [02:18.47]And fathers and sons [02:19.77] [02:22.08]There's a fine roll of honor where the maypole once [02:25.98]Stood [02:27.51] [02:28.51]And the ladies go dancing at whitsun [02:32.75] [02:35.87]There's a straight row of houses in these latter days [02:42.56] [02:43.25]All covering the downs where the sheep used to graze [02:50.00] [02:50.78]There's a field of red poppies a gift to be seen [02:55.48] [02:56.99]The ladies remember at whitsun [03:00.99] [03:03.29]And the ladies go dancing at whitsun