The Mummer's Dance(Chords)

	        Intro.: Dm / F / C / Dm / Bb / C / Dm   

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


Dm                          C   
We've been rambling all the night   
       Gsus2                      Dm   
And some time of this day   
                     C   
Now returning back again   
      G                    Dm       Dm / Bb / C / Dm    
We bring a garland gay 
   

Dm                                  C   
Who will go down to those shady groves   
       Am                           Dm   
And summon the shadows there   
                                     C   
And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms   
         Am                    Dm   
In the springtime of the year   
                                        C   
The songs of birds seem to fill the wood   
       Am                   Dm   
That when the fiddler plays   
                      C   
All their voices can be heard   
         Am                        Dm   
Long past their woodland days   


Dm                          C   
We've been rambling all the night   
       Gsus2                       Dm   
And some time of this day   
                     C   
Now returning back again   
      G                    Dm       Dm / Bb / C / Dm (2x)   
We bring a garland gay
   

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

Dm                          C   
We've been rambling all the night   
       Gsus2                      Dm   
And some time of this day   
                     C   
Now returning back again   
      G                    Dm       Dm / Bb / C / Dm (2x)   
We bring a garland gay