Hal-An-To
English traditional
Take no scorn to wear the horn!
It was the crest when you were born.
Your father's father wore it, and
your father wore it too.
Hal-An-To!
Jolly rumble-o!
We were up
long before the day-o
to welcome in the summer,
to welcome in the day-o,
for summer is a-comin' in
and winter's gone away-o.
What happened to the Spaniard
who made so great a boast, O?
It's they shall eat the feathered goose,
and we shall eat the roast, O!
Robin Hood and Little John
have both gone to the fair, O.
And we shall to the merry green wood
to hunt the buck and hare, O.
Oh, do not tell the priest our plight,
for he would call it a sin,
but we've been out in the woods all night
a-conjuring summer in!
We took this verse from
A Tree Song by
Rudyard Kipling.
God bless aunt Mary Moses
all in her power and might, O --
may she send peace to England,
send peace by day and night, O!