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Loreena McKennitt - The Stockford Carol Lyrics

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  • Traditional English (nineteenth century)
  • Recorded at Annaghmakerrig, Ireland
  • Loreena McKennitt: vocals, harp, accordion
  • 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 all hearts seem now to move.
  • Next cometh Autumn with the sun so hot and piercing;
  • The sportsman goes forth with his dog and his gun
  • to fetch down the wood*****, the partridge and the pheasant,
  • For health and for profit as well as for fun.
  • Behold with loaded apple-trees the farmer is befriended,
  • They will fill up his casks that have long laid dry.
  • All nature seems to weary nhow, her task is nearly ended,
  • And more of the seasons will come by and by.
  • When night comes on with song and tale we pass the wintry hours;
  • By keeping up a cheerful heart we hope for better days.
  • We tend the cattle, sow the seed, give work unto the ploughers,
  • With patience wait till winter yields before the sun's fair rays.
  • And so the world goes round and round, and every time and season
  • With pleasure and with profit crowns the passage of t

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