Name: To Drive the Cold Winter Away
Duration: P00H06M04S
Description: English traditional broadside ballad, circa 1625.

To Drive the Cold Winter Away

by Tiffany Schaefer

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English traditional broadside ballad, circa 1625.

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All hail to the days that merit more praise
Than all the rest of the year,
And welcome the nights that double delights,
As well for the poor as the peer!
Good fortune attend each merry man's friend,
That doth but the best that he may;
Forgetting old wrongs, with carols and songs,
To drive the cold winter away.

'Tis ill for a mind to anger inclined
To ruminate injuries now
If wrath be to seek, do not lend her thy cheek
Nor yet inhabit thy brow
Cross out of thy books malevolent looks
Both beauty and youth's decay
And spend the long night in honest delight
To drive the cold winter away

This time of the year is spent in good cheer,
And neighbors together do meet,
To sit by the fire, with friendly desire,
Each other in love do greet;
Old grudges forgot, are put in the pot,
All sorrows aside they lay,
The old and the young doth carol his song,
To drive the cold winter away.

When Christmastide comes in like a bride,
With holly and ivy clad,
Twelve days in the year, much mirth and good cheer,
In every household is had;
The country guise is then to devise
Some gambols of Christmas play,
Whereat the young men do best that they can,
To drive the cold winter away.

When white-bearded frost hath threatened his worst,
And fallen from branch and brier,
Then time away calls, from husbandry halls
And from the good countryman's fire,
Together to go to plough and to sow,
To get us both food and array;
And thus with content the time we have spent
To drive the cold winter away.

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released July 9, 2021

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Tiffany Schaefer - Harp & Song Cleveland, Ohio

For the past fifteen years Tiffany Schaefer has been playing and promoting Celtic music in Northeast Ohio and beyond. She performs regularly as a solo artist and with the Cleveland Celtic Ensemble. Most recent recognitions include winner of the US National Scottish Harp Championship in 2022. As an experienced educator, she offers private lessons and online workshops to an international following. ... more

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