The Mummers Dance chords by Loreena Mckennitt

Intro: x2
D,F,C,D,Bb,C,D
D,F,C,D,Bb,C,G

D           C
When in the springtime of the year
     Am              G
When the trees are crowned with leaves
D               C
When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
  Am           D
Are dressed in ribbons fair

D         C
When owls call the breathless moon
    Am          G
In the blue veil of the night
  D       C
The shadows of the trees appear
 Am           D
Amidst the lantern light

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

(C,Bb,C,D)x2

D             C
Who will go down to those shady groves
  Am           G
And summon the shadows there
D             C
And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms
    Am          D
In the springtime of the year

D             C
The songs of birds seem to fill the wood
   Am          G
That when the fiddler plays
D        C
All their voices can be heard
   Am           D
Long past their woodland days

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

(C,Bb,C,D)x2
D,F,C,D,Bb,C,D
D,F,C,D,Bb,C,G

D            C
And so they linked their hands and danced
Am             G
Round in circles and in rows
D             C
And so the journey of the night descends
   Am           D
When all the shades are gone

D         C
"A garland gay we bring you here
  Am          G
And at your door we stand
D          C
It is a sprout well budded out
  Am           C
The work of Our Lord's hand"

(D          C
We've been rambling all the night
  G          D
And some time of this day
D       C
Now returning back again
  G          D
We bring a garland gay)x2

(C,Bb,C,D)x2
D,F,C,D,Bb,C,G
D,F,C,D,Bb,C,D