[ti:The Mummers' Dance] [ar:Loreena McKennitt] [al:The Book Of Secrets] [by:Van] [offset:500] [00:00.00]Loreena McKennitt - The Mummers' Dance [01:01.23]Music and Lyrics: Loreena McKennitt [01:06.23] [01:11.23]When in the springtime of the year [01:14.79]When the trees are crowned with leaves [01:18.99]When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew [01:23.08]Are dressed in ribbons fair [01:26.00] [01:27.14]When owls call the breathless moon [01:30.85]In the blue veil of the night [01:35.07]The shadows of the trees appear [01:39.07]Amidst the lantern light [01:42.09] [01:43.29]We've been rambling all the night [01:46.79]And some time of this day [01:51.07]Now returning back again [01:54.88]We bring a garland gay [01:58.88] [02:15.22]Who will go down to those shady groves [02:18.76]And summon the shadows there [02:22.77]And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms [02:26.56]In the springtime of the year [02:29.44] [02:30.66]The songs of birds seem to fill the wood [02:34.61]That when the fiddler plays [02:38.76]All their voices can be heard [02:42.16]Long past their woodland days [02:45.71] [02:46.76]We've been rambling all the night [02:50.46]And some time of this day [02:54.49]Now returning back again [02:58.36]We bring a garland gay [03:02.47] [03:49.97]And so they linked their hands and danced [03:53.82]Round in circles and in rows [03:58.01]And so the journey of the night descends [04:01.94]When all the shades are gone [04:05.14] [04:06.13]"A garland gay we bring you here [04:09.79]And at your door we stand [04:13.89]It is a sprout well budded out [04:17.84]The work of our Lord's hand" [04:20.93] [04:22.09]We've been rambling all the night [04:25.67]And some time of this day [04:29.74]Now returning back again [04:33.55]We bring a garland gay [04:37.45]We've been rambling all the night [04:41.37]And some time of this day [04:45.34]Now returning back again [04:49.19]We bring a garland gay [04:53.30] [05:35.61] [06:00.69]END