Lammastide - Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Original London Cast Of 'The Woman In White'

Ripe golden fields and the

bounty the bring

Reason enough for to dance and to sing

Dance for who knows if we’ll live till its spring

Sing

For it’s Lammastide

(A young girl goes up to Laura and gives her a corn dolly)

All:

Winds of the winter

As sharp as a thorn

Soon will assault us As sure as we’re born

Girl:

Who will protect us?

A doll made of corn

All

Dance!

For it’s Lammastide

Men:

Please spend the season

Pressed in my arms

Rest in my arms

Women:

Merrily, merrily

We’ll end the season

Wrapped in your arms

Men:

Trapped in your arms

Women:

Verily, verily

All:

Ripe golden fields and the

bounty they bring

Reason enough for to dance and to sing

Dance for who knows if we’ll live till it’s spring

Sing

For it’s Lammastide

Men:

Please end the season

Pressed in my arms

Blessed in my arms

Women:

Verily, verily

Although we may protest in your arms

We’ll nest in your arms

All:

Merrily, merrily

After we harvest the fruits of the earth

Time for the home and a moment of mirth

Men:

Time for a dance

Women:

And the chance of rebirth

All:

Sing

For it’s Lammastide

Ripe golden fields and the bounty they bring

Reason enough for to dance and to sing

Dance for who knows if we’ll live till it’s spring

Sing

For it’s Lammastide!

Dance

For it’s Lammastide!

Sing

For it’s Lammastide!

(At the end of the song, we see the same young girl being excluded from the

festivities.

Her mother scolds her and she does not enter the church with the

others)

Mother:

(to little girl) You’ll wait outside till you see sense my girl