It's the shortest day of the year.
 

Now is the solstice of the year,
winter is the glad song that you hear.
Seven maids move in seven time.
Have the lads up ready in a line.

Ring out these bells.
Ring out, ring solstice bells.
Ring solstice bells.

Join together beneath the mistletoe.
by the holy oak whereon it grows.
Seven druids dance in seven time.
Sing the song the bells call, loudly chiming.

Ring out these bells.
Ring out, ring solstice bells.
Ring solstice bells.

Praise be to the distant sister sun,
joyful as the silver planets run.
Seven maids move in seven time.
Sing the song the bells call, loudly chiming.
Ring out those bells.
Ring out, ring solstice bells.
Ring solstice bells.
Ring on, ring out.
Ring on, ring out.

(Ian Anderson)

Hapy solstice everybody.

--
Steve

Never shake the ketchup bottle. None'll come, and then a lot'll

It's the shortest day of the year.
 

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:17:04 +0000, shazzbat wrote:

Now is the solstice of the year,
winter is the glad song that you hear. Seven maids move in seven time.


Move/dance in seven time? How many legs do they have? bloody clever trick
if you can do it IMO. Do any of you know 'Serenade' (op22) by Derek
Bougeois? He wrote it for his own wedding, the bride having specified
that she wanted 'something that nobody can march to and won't make my
mother cry'. It's in 11/8 with a 13/8 middle section!

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In article ,
Derek Turner wrote:
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:17:04 +0000, shazzbat wrote:

Now is the solstice of the year,
winter is the glad song that you hear. Seven maids move in seven time.

Move/dance in seven time? How many legs do they have?

If seven maids with seven legs were to dance in seven time ....



Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

It's the shortest day of the year.
 

On 2009-12-21 18:41:22 +0000, said:

In article ,
Derek Turner wrote:
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:17:04 +0000, shazzbat wrote:

Now is the solstice of the year,
winter is the glad song that you hear. Seven maids move in seven time.

Move/dance in seven time? How many legs do they have?

If seven maids with seven legs were to dance in seven time ....



Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

They'd fall over 343 times? Or wot?
--
Sacha

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In article , Sacha wrote:

Now is the solstice of the year,
winter is the glad song that you hear. Seven maids move in seven time.

Move/dance in seven time? How many legs do they have?

If seven maids with seven legs were to dance in seven time ....

They'd fall over 343 times? Or wot?

God wot.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

It's the shortest day of the year.
 

On 2009-12-21 21:32:08 +0000, said:

In article , Sacha wrote:

Now is the solstice of the year,
winter is the glad song that you hear. Seven maids move in seven time.

Move/dance in seven time? How many legs do they have?

If seven maids with seven legs were to dance in seven time ....

They'd fall over 343 times? Or wot?

God wot.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Wot not.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon

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On 21 Dec, 23:23, Janet Baraclough
wrote:
* The seven maids of the winter solstice, are a *constellation of stars
(the Pleiades).

I knew that.

What?

It's the shortest day of the year.
 

shazzbat wrote:
Now is the solstice of the year,
snip
Ring on, ring out.
(Ian Anderson)
Hapy solstice everybody.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_AeCk7MBqs

Ditto the happy bit.