The Mummer's Dance-Loreena McKennitt

[00:00.21]Mckennitt Loreena [00:00.39]The Book Of Secrets [00:30.21]The Mummer's Dance [00:32.76]When in the springtime of the year [00:36.42]When the trees are crowned with leaves [00:40.14]When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew [00:44.43]Are dressed in ribbons fair [00:48.18]When owls call the breathless moon [00:51.90]In the blue veil of the night [00:55.92]The shadows of the trees appear [00:59.88]Amidst the lantern light [01:04.08]We've been rambling all the night [01:09.03]And some time of this day [01:12.21]Now returning back again [01:15.42]We bring a garland gay [01:28.20]Who will go down to those shady groves [01:31.05]And summon the shadows there [01:34.89]And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms [01:38.49]In the springtime of the year [01:42.63]The songs of birds seem to fill the wood [01:46.50]That when the fiddler plays [01:50.61]All their voices can be heard [01:53.88]Long past their woodland days [02:38.16]And so they linked their hands and danced [02:40.53]Round in circles and in rows [02:44.46]And so the journey of the night descends [02:48.45]When all the shades are gone [02:52.38]"A garland gay we bring you here [02:56.25]And at your door we stand [03:00.09]It is a sprout well budded out [03:03.99]The work of our Lord's hand"