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Traditional English (nineteenth century)
Recorded at Annaghmakerrig, Ireland
Loreena McKennitt: vocals, harp, accordion
Come all you lads and lasses, I'd have you give attention
To these few lines I'm about to write here.
'Tis of the four seasons of the year that I shall mention,
The beauty of all things doth appear.
And now you are young and all in your prosperity,
Come cheer up your hearts and revive like the spring.
Join off in pairs like the birds in February
That St. Valentine's Day it forth do bring.*
Then cometh Spring, which all the land doth nourish;