[00:00.00] 作词 : McKennitt, Traditional
[00:00.00]loreena mckennitt - in praise of christmas
[00:50.90]traditional english, arranged by loreena mckennitt
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[01:00.90]all hail to the days that merit more praise
[01:07.94]than all of the rest of the year,
[01:14.52]and welcome the nights that double delights
[01:21.42]as well for the poor as the peer!
[01:27.87]good fortune attend each merry mans friend
[01:34.66]that doth but the best that he may,
[01:40.77]forgetting old wrongs with carols and songs
[01:47.94]to drive the cold winter away.
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[02:01.28]tis ill for a mind to anger inclined
[02:07.49]to think of small injuries now,
[02:13.41]if wrath be to seek, do not lend her thy cheek,
[02:19.54]nor let her inhabit thy brow.
[02:25.59]cross out thy books malevolent looks,
[02:32.24]both beauty and youths decay,
[02:38.16]and wholly consort with mirth and with sport
[02:44.77]to drive the cold winter away.
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[03:03.16]this time of the year is spent in good cheer,
[03:09.64]and neighbours together do meet,
[03:15.42]to sit by the fire, with friendly desire,
[03:21.75]each other in love to greet.
[03:27.44]old grudges forgot are put in the pot,
[03:33.86]all sorrows aside they lay;
[03:39.89]the old and the young doth carol this song,
[03:46.14]to drive the cold winter away.
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[04:45.85]when christmass tide comes in like a bride,
[04:52.48]with holly and ivy clad,
[04:58.51]twelve days in the year much mirth and good cheer
[05:05.01]in every household is had.
[05:11.06]the country guise is then to devise
[05:17.49]some gambols of christmas play,
[05:23.25]whereat the young men do best that they can
[05:30.44]to drive the cold winter away.
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[05:58.54]end