Loreena Mccennitt The Seasons Lyrics

The Seasons Lyrics

Traditional English (nineteenth century)

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 woodcock, 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 the year.
And
so through every time of life, to him who acts with reason
The beauty of all
things doth appear.