The Mummers’ Dance-Loreena McKennitt

[ti:The Mummers' Dance ] [ar:Loreena McKennitt] [al:] [offset:0] [01:11.88]When in the springtime of the year [01:14.47]When the trees are crowned with leaves [01:18.59]When the ash and oak and the birch and yew [01:22.53]Are dressed in ribbons fair [01:25.46] [01:26.84]When owls call the breathless moon [01:30.47]In the blue veil of the night [01:33.45] [01:34.84]The shadows of the trees appear [01:38.14] [01:38.72]Amidst the lantern light [01:41.45] [01:43.16]We've been rambling all the night [01:46.47]And some time of this day [01:50.20] [01:50.84]Now returning back again [01:54.53]We bring a garland gay [01:57.52] [02:15.16]Who will go down to those shady groves [02:18.59]And summon the shadows there [02:21.27] [02:22.84]And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms [02:26.41]In the springtime of the year [02:29.14] [02:30.65]The songs of birds seem to fill the wood [02:34.53]That when the fiddler plays [02:37.33] [02:38.84]All their voices can be heard [02:42.16]Long past their woodland days [02:45.20] [02:46.84]We've been rambling all the night [02:50.16]And some time of this day [02:53.52] [02:54.53]Now returning back again [02:58.24]We bring a garland gay [03:01.85] [03:51.36]And so they linked their hands and danced [03:54.36]Round in circles and in rows [03:57.16] [03:58.36]And so the journey of the night descends [04:02.30]When all the shades are gone [04:05.10] [04:06.55]A garland gay we bring you here [04:10.24]And at your door we stand [04:13.10] [04:14.61]It is a sprout well budded out [04:17.72] [04:18.30]The work of our Lord's hand [04:21.10] [04:22.55]We've been rambling all the night [04:26.36]And some time of this day [04:28.85] [04:30.30]Now returning back again [04:32.85] [04:34.09]We bring a garland gay [04:37.89] [04:38.47]We've been rambling all the night [04:42.09]And some time of this day [04:45.27] [04:46.16]Now returning back again [04:49.97]We bring a garland gay [04:52.27]