All Hayle To The Dayes-The Albion Christmas Band

[ti:All Hayle To The Dayes] [ar:The Albion Christmas Band] [al:Winter Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]All Hayle To The Dayes - The Albion Christmas Band [00:46.81]All Hail to the days [00:48.80] [00:49.45]All hail to the days that merit more praise [00:54.57]Than all the rest of the year [00:55.90] [00:57.85]And welcome the nights that double delights [01:02.93] [01:03.58]As well for the poor as the peer [01:07.05] [01:08.98]Good fortune attend each merry man's friend [01:14.01] [01:14.68]That doth but the best that he may [01:18.34] [01:20.17]Forgetting old wrongs with carols and songs [01:25.29] [01:26.00]To drive the cold winter away [01:29.41] [01:32.49]When Christmas' tide comes in like a bride [01:37.67] [01:38.34]With holly and ivy clad [01:42.18] [01:43.90]Twelve days in the year much mirth and good cheer [01:48.95] [01:49.57]In every household is had [01:53.18] [01:55.19]The country guise is then to devise [01:59.98] [02:00.55]Some gambols of Christmas play [02:04.40] [02:06.38]Whereat the young men do best that they can [02:11.05] [02:11.69]To drive the cold winter away [02:15.20] [03:04.53]When white-bearded frost hath threatened his worse [03:09.64] [03:10.28]And fallen from branch and briar [03:14.14] [03:15.95]Then time away calls from husbandry halls [03:21.62]And from the good countryman's fire [03:25.15] [03:26.98]Together to go to plough and to sow [03:32.01] [03:32.60]To get us both food and array [03:36.18] [03:38.25]And thus will content the time we have spend [03:43.10] [03:43.69]To drive the cold winter away