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The Mummer's Dance by Loreena McKennitt
The Shadowland way
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Once in the springtime of the year
When the trees were crowned with leaves
When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
Were dressed in living greens
When moongates follow'd the twin born moons
In the blue veil of the night
A shadow from the past appeared
Beyond the lantern light
We've been fighting ov'r the night
And sometime past this day
Time returning back again
We breathe of Armageddon
Who would go down to the shady groves
And summon the shadows here?
Send death breathing on the sheltering arms
In the springtime of the year?
The songs of birds cease to fill the woods
But when the reaper plays
All the voices can be heard
Long past their woodland days
We've been fighting ov'r the night
And sometime past this day
Time returning back again
We breathe of Armageddon
And so we linked our hands and stood
'Round in a circle holding stones
And so the battle 'gainst the night begins
Before our friends are gone
Fate's call did bring us here
And at her door we stand
The Gate has sprung, whereabout did he
The work of dark lord's hand
We've been fighting ov'r the night
And sometime past this day
Time returning back again
We breathe of Armageddon
We've been fighting ov'r the night
And sometime past this day
Time returning back again
We breathe of Armageddon
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