The Mummer's Dance

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When in the springtime of the year
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When the trees are crowned with 
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leaves
When the ash and oak, and the birch 
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and yew
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Are dressed in ribbons fair
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When owls call the breathless moon
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In the blue veil of the night
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The shadows of the trees appear
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Amidst the lantern light

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We've been rambling all the night
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And some time of this day
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Now returning back again
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We bring a garland gay
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Dm                            
Who will go down to those shady 
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groves
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And summon the shadows there
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And tie a ribbon on those sheltering
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 arms
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In the springtime of the year
The songs of birds seem to fill the 
    C
wood
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That when the fiddler plays
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All their voices can be heard
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Long past their woodland days
Dm


 Dm                          C
We've been rambling all the night
       G                       Dm
And some time of this day
                     C
Now returning back again
      G                    Dm      
We bring a garland gay
Dm  C  Bb  C  Dm


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And so they linked their hands and 
danced
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Round in circles and in rows
And so the journey of the night 
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descends
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When all the shades are gone
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"A garland gay we bring you here
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And at your door we stand
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It is a sprout well budded out
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The work of Our Lord's hand"

 Dm                          C
We've been rambling all the night
       G                       Dm
And some time of this day
                     C
Now returning back again
      G                    Dm     
We bring a garland gay
  Dm  C  Bb  C  Dm