The Season-The Dodos

[00:00.00]Loreena McKennitt - The Seasons [00:16.79]Traditional English, arranged by Loreena McKennitt [00:18.79] [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. [01:10.97] [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. [03:11.90] [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. [04:27.70]