Wednesday 31 August 2016

Green Man


 Sing altogether:
'All along the Green Wood
All along the Green Wood Ho',
after every line of the first three verses

 
Where did you see him run?
In the place Amergin sung
Did he wear the leaves of oak?
It was his green calendar cloak
Could he be Tom Bombadil?
Ask the poets on the hill
 
What did Sir Gawain make him do?
Chop his head off through and through
Why could he not chop him down?
Green Man gets up from the round
So on a quest Gawain is sent
Green Man spares his life in the end
 
Green Man where have you gone?
For they chopped your greenwood down
Will you be coming back again?
To dance in pageant and parade
Is your wisdom just a dream?
Ask the salmon in the stream

Hooray for the Rowan, Oak and Ash!
Hooray for the Green Man who must last!
Hooray for the Hawthorn, Yew and Birch!
Hooray for the cycle of rebirth!
Hooray for the rain that makes him green!
Hooray for the spirit that walks unseen!
 
Green Man Green Man
With your face all full of leaves
Alive though we chop you down
Without you we don't breathe
Green Man! Green Man!
Green Man! Green Man!
 
 

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