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Drive the cold winter away - Trad English
I am trying capo 2 (and have an abc derived score)
Am C
1. All hail to the days that merit more praise
Dm Am
Than all the rest of the year,
Am C
And welcome the nights that double delights,
Dm Am
As well for the poor as the peer!
C Dm
Good fortune attend each merry man’s friend,
C Em Am
That doth but the best that he may;
C Dm
Forgetting old wrongs, with carols and songs,
C Em Am
To drive the cold winter away.
Am C
2. This fire, with friendly desire,
Dm Am
Each other in love do greet;
C Dm
Old grudges forgot, are put in the pot,
C Em Am
All sorrows aside they lay,
C Dm
The old and the young doth carol his song,
C Em Am
To drive the cold winter away.
Am C
3. To mask and to mum kind neighbors will come
Dm Am
With wassails of nut-brown ale,
Am C
To drink and carouse to all in the house,
Dm Am
As merry as bucks in the dale;
C Dm
Where cake, bread and cheese is brought for your fees,
C Em Am
To make you the longer stay;
C fire to warm will do you no harm,
C Em Am
To drive the cold winter away.
Am C
4. When Christmas’s tide comes in like a bride,
Dm Am
With holly and ivy clad,
Am C
Twelve days in the year, much mirth and good cheer,
Dm Am
In every household is had;
C Dm
The country guise is then to devise
C Em Am
Some gambols of Christmas play,
C Dm
Whereat the young men do best that they can,
C Em Am
To drive the cold winter away.
Am C
5. When white-bearded frost hath threatened his worst,
Dm Am
And fallen from branch and brier,
Am C
Then time away calls, from husbandry halls
Dm Am
And from the good countryman’fire,
C Dm
Together to go to plough and to sow,
C Em Am
To get us both food and array;
C Dm
And thus with content the time we have spent
C Em Am
To drive the cold winter away.
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