Drive the Cold Winter Away lyrics

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!

Sweet blessings attend each merry man's friend

that doth but the best that he may,

Forgetting old wrongs, with poems and songs,

to drive the cold winter away.

'Tis ill for the mind to anger inclined

to think of small injuries now;

If wrath be to seek, don't lend her they cheek,

don't let her inhabit thy brow.

Cross out of thy books malevolent looks,

both beauty and youth's decay,

And spend the long nights in honest delights

to drive the cold winter away.

This time of the year is spent in good cheer

with neighbors together to meet,

To sit by the fire, with friendly desire,

with others in love to greet;

Old grudges forgot, are put in the pot,

all sorrows aside they lay,

The old and the young doth carol this song,

to drive the cold winter away.

• Artist:Owain Phyfe