[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Come all you lads and lasses, all you give attention
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To these few lines I'm about to write here
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'Tis of the four seasons of the year that I shall mention
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Beauty of all things doth appear
[Verse]
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And now you are young and all in your prosperity
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Come cheer up your hearts and revive like the spring
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Join off in pairs like the birds in February
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St. Valentine's Day it forth do bring
[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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Then cometh spring, which all the land doth nourish
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The fields are beginning to be decked with green
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The trees put forth their buds and the blossoms they do flourish
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The tender blades of corn on the earth could be seen
[Verse]
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Don't you see the little lambs by the dams a-playing?
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The cuckoo is singing in the shady grove
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The flowers they are springing, the maids they go a-Maying
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In love, all hearts seem now to move
[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
C Em Am F
Then cometh autumn, with the sun so hot and piercing
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The sportsman goes forth with his dog and his gun
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To fetch down the woodcock, the partridge and the pheasant
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For health and for profit, as well as for fun
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Behold, with loaded apple trees the farmer is befriended
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They will full up his casks that have long laid dry
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All nature seems so weary now, her task is nearly ended
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And more of the seasons will come by and by
[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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When night comes on, with song and tale, we pass the wintry hours
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By keeping up a cheerful heart, we hope for better days
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We tend the cattle, sow the seed, give work unto the ploughers
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With patience wait 'til winter yields, before the sun's fair rays
[Verse]
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And so the world goes 'round and 'round, every time and season
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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
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The beauty of all things doth appear
[Outro]
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