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The Mummers Dance

by Loreena McKennitt · posted by gene

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Tab
On the 21st bar  of the song she starts singing whole notes:
-6   7  6  -6  -5   6   -6 
Ooh________________aah________ .        

-6   7  6  -6  -5   6   5   
Ooh_________________aah_______.

Play /verse, chorus/verse, chorus/verse, chorus, chorus/.

Verse:
-4   -4      -6       -4 5   -4 4    4     4
In  the    spring-    time    of    the  year 

-3"'   -3"'   5     5      5      -4     -4
When   the  trees  are  crowned  with  leaves  

 4   -4  -4  -6  -4    -4  5   -4 4     4    4    
When the ash and oak  and the  birch   and  yew 

-3'     5     5   5 -4    -4       
Are  dressed in rib-bons fair

-4   -4   -6   -4 5    -4      4     4   
When owls call  the   breath-less  moon 

4   -3'   5    5    5 -4   -4  
In  the blue veil  of the night

 4   -4  -6  -4  -4 5  -4    4  4
The sha-dows of   the trees ap-pear

-3' 5    5   5  -4    -4
A-midst the lan-turn light
Chorus:  -6    -8     -8     8   -8   7
         We've been rambling all the night

         -7    7   -7  -7  -7  -6
         And some time of this day

          6  -6   -8  -8   -8 8  -8  7  
         Now re- turn-ing  back  a-gain

         -7   7   -7    7 -7   -6
         We bring  a  gar-land gay

Verse 2 Who'll go down to those shady groves
        And summon the shadows there
        And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms
        In the springtime of the year

        Songs of birds seem to fill the wood
        That when the fiddler plays
        All their voices can be heard
        Long past their woodland days                               Verse 3   And so they linked their hands and danced
          Round in circles and in rows
          And so the journey of the night descends
          When all the shades are gone

          A garland gay we bring you here
          And at your door we stand
          It is a sprout well budded out
          The work of our Lord's hand


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