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