[00:07.19]The Mummers' Dance (Loreena McKennitt)
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[01:10.52]When in the springtime of the year
[01:14.48]When the trees are crowned with leaves
[01:18.62]When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
[01:22.67]Are dressed in ribbons fair
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[01:26.67]When owls call the breathless moon
[01:30.50]In the blue veil of the night
[01:34.67]The shadows of the trees appear
[01:38.52]Amidst the lantern light
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[01:42.88]We've been rambling all the night
[01:46.71]And some time of this day
[01:50.89]Now returning back again
[01:54.50]We bring a garland gay
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[02:14.79]Who will go down to those shady groves
[02:18.62]And summon the shadows there
[02:22.63]And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms
[02:26.29]In the springtime of the year
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[02:30.45]The songs of birds seem to fill the wood
[02:34.16]That when the fiddler plays
[02:38.50]All their voices can be heard
[02:42.11]Long past their woodland days
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[02:46.68]We've been rambling all the night
[02:50.52]And some time of this day
[02:54.63]Now returning back again
[02:58.23]We bring a garland gay
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[03:50.36]And so they linked their hands and danced
[03:54.26]Round in circles and in rows
[03:58.41]And so the journey of the night descends
[04:02.19]When all the shades are gone
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[04:06.50]"A garland gay we bring you here
[04:10.21]And at your door we stand
[04:14.17]It is a sprout well budded out
[04:18.28]The work of our Lord's hand"
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[04:22.29]We've been rambling all the night
[04:26.09]And some time of this day
[04:29.97]Now returning back again
[04:33.65]We bring a garland gay
[04:37.50]
[04:38.20]We've been rambling all the night
[04:41.98]And some time of this day
[04:45.96]Now returning back again
[04:49.78]We bring a garland gay
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