When in the springtime of the year When the trees are crowned with leaves When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew Are dressed in ribbons fair. When
(Music: Traditional arranged by Loreena McKennitt) [Instrumental]
I walk the streets of Dublin town It's eighteen forty-two It's snowing on this Christmas Eve Think I'll beg another bob or two I'll huddle in this doorway
(Music & Lyric: Traditional arranged by Loreena McKennitt) The first good joy that Mary had It was the joy of one. The first rejoice that Mary had Was
My love said to me My mother won't mind And me father won't slight you For your lack of kind Then she stepped away from me And this she did say, "It will
(Lyric: 16th Cent French; Music: Traditional 16th Cent French arranged by Loreena McKennitt) Noel nouvelet! Noel chantons icy; Devotes gens' rendons
Where dips the rocky highland Of Slueth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsey water rats; There we've hif
(Music by Loreena McKennitt; Words by Archibald Lampman) White are the far-off plains, and white The fading forests grow; The wind dies out along the
(Traditional, arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt) God rest ye merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay Remember Christ our Saviour Was born on
(Words traditional; Music by Loreena McKennitt) I sowed the seeds of love I sowed them in the spring I gathered them up in the morning so clear When
(Music: Traditional; Arranged by Loreena McKennitt) [Instrumental]
(Music: Gustav Holst; Arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt) [Instrumental]
(Loreena McKennitt) [Instrumental]
This glancing life is like a morning star A setting sun, or rolling waves at sea A gentle breeze or lightning in a storm A dancing dream of all eternity
(Traditional, arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt) Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child By by, lully, lullay, thou little tiny child By by, lully
It was an English ladye bright, (The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall,) And she would marry a Scottish knight, For Love will still be lord of all. Blithely
(Music & Lyric: Traditional; Arranged by Loreena McKennitt) Veni, veni, Emanuel: Captivum solve Israel, Qui gemit in exilio, Privatus Dei Filio Gaude
