Lyrics:
The Mummers Dance Loreena Mckennitt

seem to fill the wood That when the fiddler plays All their voices can be heard Long past their woodland days And so they linked their hands and danced

Translation: McKennitt, Loreena. Mummers' Dance [dvd] [music Video].

. We've been rambling all the night And sometime of this day Now returning back again We bring a garland gay. And so they linked their hands and danced

seem to fill the wood That when the fiddler plays All their voices can be heard Long past their woodland days And so they linked their hands and danced

birds seem to fill the wood That when the fiddler plays All their voices can be heard Long past their woodland days And so they linked their hands and danced

My love said to me My mother won't mind And me father won't slight you For your lack of kind Then she stepped away from me And this she did say, "It

I walk the streets of Dublin town It's eighteen forty-two It's snowing on this Christmas Eve Think I'll beg another bob or two I'll huddle in this doorway

Translation: McKennitt, Loreena. The Mummer's Dance.