The Seasons chords by Loreena Mckennitt

Intro:
C F G C Em F G

Verse:
   C        Em   Am       F
Come all you lads and lasses, all you give attention
  Dm    Am     F    G   Am  G
To these few lines I'm about to write here
   C      Em       Am        F
'Tis of the four seasons of the year that I shall mention
Dm    Em     G/B G C
Beauty of all things doth appear

Verse:
  F      G       F      G
And now you are young and all in your prosperity
   Am      F      C     G/B Am   C G
Come cheer up your hearts and revive like the spring
C      Em       Am      F
Join off in pairs like the birds in February
  Dm     Em   G    C
St. Valentine's Day it forth do bring

Instrumental:
C F G C Em F G

Verse:
   C   Em      Am        F
Then cometh spring, which all the land doth nourish
  Dm      Am      F   G  Am   G
The fields are beginning to be decked with green
  C           Em      Am        F
The trees put forth their buds and the blossoms they do flourish
  Dm        Em     G/B  G    C
The tender blades of corn on the earth could be seen

Verse:
     F       G      F   G
Don't you see the little lambs by the dams a-playing?
  Am    F    C   G/B  Am   C G C
The cuckoo is singing in the shady grove
           Em       Am       F
The flowers they are springing, the maids they go a-Maying
  Dm    Em     G   C
In love, all hearts seem now to move

Instrumental:
C F G C Em F G

Verse:
   C   Em        Am       F
Then cometh autumn, with the sun so hot and piercing
  Dm       Am       F  G    Am  G
The sportsman goes forth with his dog and his gun
  C       Em      Am        F
To fetch down the woodcock, the partridge and the pheasant
  Dm       Em     G/B G   C
For health and for profit, as well as for fun

Verse:
 F     G           F      G
Behold, with loaded apple trees the farmer is befriended
     Am     F        C  G/B Am  C G
They will full up his casks that have long laid dry
  C        Em       Am       F
All nature seems so weary now, her task is nearly ended
  Dm     Em      G      C
And more of the seasons will come by and by

Instrumental:
C F G C Em F G
C F G C Em F G

Verse:
   C          Em        Am       F
When night comes on, with song and tale, we pass the wintry hours
  Dm      Am         F    G   Am  G
By keeping up a cheerful heart, we hope for better days
  C        Em         Am      F
We tend the cattle, sow the seed, give work unto the ploughers
   Dm         Em        G/B   G     C
With patience wait 'til winter yields, before the sun's fair rays

Verse:
  F         G         F       G
And so the world goes 'round and 'round, every time and season
Am      F         C    G/B  Am  C G
Pleasure and profit crowns the passage of the year
  C        Em        Am        F
And so through every time of life, to him who acts with reason
  Dm    Em     G   C
The beauty of all things doth appear

Outro:
C F G C Em F G
C F G C Em F G