All hail to the days that merit more praiseThan all the rest of the year,And welcome the nights that double delightsAs well for the poor as the peer!Good fortune attend each merry man's friendThat doth but the best that he may,Forgetting old wrongs with carols and songsTo drive the cold winter away.Tis I'll for a mind to anger inclinedTo think of small injuries now,If wrath be to seek, do not lend her your cheekNor let her inhabit thy brow.Cross out of thy books malevolent looks,Both beauty and youth's decay,And wholly consort with mirth and sportTo drive the cold winter away.This time of the year is spent in good cheerAnd neighbours together do meet,To sit by the fire, with friendly desire,Each other in love to greet.Old grudges forgot are put in the pot,All sorrows aside they lay,The old and the young doth carol this song,To drive the cold winter away.When Christmas's tide comes in a like a bride,With holly and ivy clad,Twelve days in the year much mirth and good cheerIn every household is had.The country guise is then to deviseSome gambols of Christmas play,Whereat the young men do the best that they canTo drive the cold winter away.
Lyrics by Loreena McKennitt
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