What Season Is This (What Child is This/Greensleeves)

 What Season Is This (What Child is This/Greensleeves) 

This melody started somewhere and became Greensleeves – or maybe originated with Greensleeves. Then someone’s like, “hey, let’s use it for our celebratory religious purposes.” In keeping with that tradition, I’ve done the same. On one hand, Greensleeves is not a religious song, so secular lyrics are right there, but I had too much fun making it into a winter song. 

 

What season reaches us with hands 

Which, frozen, rest on our shoulders 

And chills our nose and hands and toes  

As blustery days grow colder 

This this is wintertime 

The kinglet song, so sublime 

Praise, praise this wonderland 

The quietly darkened season 

  

While sheltered from the chill I lie 

In crystals that fell from over head 

My downy shroud felt like a cloud 

As snowflakes dance, elated 

This this is wintertime 

Cloudy crystals about us fly 

Praise, praise this wonderland 

The quietly darkened season 

 
Across the icy dance floor skate, 

A scratching rhythm is pealing. 
the speeding pace of a sledding race 

Can numb the pain we are feeling 
This this is wintertime 

On sledding hills we slide and climb 

Praise, praise this wonderland 

The quietly darkened season 

  

Sing, Sing our winter song 

Sing through the night so long 

Joy, Joy this frozen chapter 

The quietly darkened season 

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