Loreena Mccennitt Track Comments To The Visit Lyrics

Track Comments To The Visit 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