Copyright Doc Pablo and Devon Cohn, Cambridge, winter 1996
[Capo up 3]
G D C -> G
Winter time, northern lights,
C -> Am C/G D
How'd they find me here?
G D C -> G
Spinning rhymes and holding tight,
C -> Am C/G D
As midnight's drawing near
C G
Life is a question, love is the answer,
Em D ->
Hope is the reason that we share
G D C -> G
A song with friends by candlelight
C -> Am G G/F# G
On the longest night of the year
Thinking back to summer's end,
when days were warm and long
Between the tracks, we'd gladly spend
the evening for a song
Life is a dark road that lies ahead
Friends light the way to make it clear
And lead us on, around the bend
On the longest night of the year
<bridge>
C G
We have been gathered by circumstances,
C D
Asking the question Why
C G
We can't expect that we'll get an answer,
Em D ->
But who's to say we shouldn't try?
And so each year, in wintertime,
With friends all gathered round
We ring in strains of Auld Lang Syn
As snow comes falling down
Tales of the old ways, love for the taking,
Songs for the younger ones to share:
The old refrain begins again
On the longest night of the year
Songs of the old ways, tales in the making,
Love for the younger ones to share:
The song goes on without an end
On the longest night of the year
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With (experimental) descant:
Thinking back to summer's end
When I think back to sum mer
When days were warm and long
days so warm and long - summer went on and on
Between the tracks, we'd gladly spend
Between the tracks we'd gladly
The evening for a song
spend the evening on - love we could count upon
And so each year, in wintertime
Each year in winter time
With friends all gathered round
As friends all gather round - warm embers on the coals
We ring in strains of Auld Lang Syne
We sing of days gone by
As snow comes falling down
to make a joyful sound - and talk of days of old
- draw new love/life from the old