[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
