
Date of issue: 06.03.1997
Song language: English
The Mummers' Dance |
When in the Springtime of the year |
When the trees are crowned with leaves |
When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew |
Are dressed in ribbons fair |
When owls call the breathless moon |
In the blue veil of the night |
The shadows of the trees appear |
Amidst the lantern light |
We’ve been rambling all the night |
And some time of this day |
Now returning back again |
We bring a garland gay |
Who will go down to those shady groves |
And summon the shadows there |
And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms |
In the springtime of the year |
The songs of birds seem to fill the wood |
That when the fiddler plays |
All their voices can be heard |
Long past their woodland days |
We’ve been rambling all the night |
And some time of this day |
Now returning back again |
We bring a garland gay |
And so they linked their hands and danced |
Round in circles and in rows |
And so the journey of the night descends |
When all the shades are gone |
«A garland gay we bring you here |
And at your door we stand |
It is a sprout well budded out |
The work of Our Lord’s hand» |
We’ve been rambling all the night |
And some time of this day |
Now returning back again |
We bring a garland gay |
We’ve been rambling all the night |
And some time of this day |
Now returning back again |
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The Mystic's Dream | 2009 |
Night Ride Across the Caucasus | 1997 |
Tango to Evora | 2009 |
Marrakesh Night Market | 1994 |
Skellig | 1997 |
The Bells of Christmas | 2006 |
Snow | 1995 |
To the Fairies They Draw Near | 2007 |
The Mask and Mirror | 2009 |
Dante's Prayer | 1997 |
The Dark Night of the Soul | 1994 |
The Bonny Swans | 1994 |
Stolen Child | 2014 |
The Highwayman | 1997 |
Caravanserai | 2009 |
The Lady of Shalott | 2014 |
Incantation | 2006 |
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen | 1995 |
Beneath a Phrygian Sky | 2006 |
Samain Night | 1989 |