Loreena McKennitt - The Seasons
Traditional English, arranged by Loreena McKennitt
Come all you lads and lasses,
I"d have you give attention
To these few lines I"m about to write here,
"Tis of the four seasons of the year that I shall mention,
The beauty of all things doth appear.
And now you are young and all in your prosperity,
Come cheer up your hearts and revive like the spring
Join off in pairs like the birds in February
That St. Valentine"s Day it forth do bring.
Then cometh Spring, which all the land doth nourish;
The fields are beginning to be decked with green,
The trees put forth their buds
and the blossoms they do flourish,
And the tender blades of corn on the earth are to be seen.
Don"t you see the little lambs by the dams a-playing?
The cuckoo is singing in the shady grove.
The flowers they are springing,
the maids they go a-Maying,
In love
