Dance Up The Sun

(John Thompson)

Dance up the sun on a fine May morning,
Dance up the sun to call in the Spring,
Dance away the dark while the new day's dawning,
All is new when we dance and we sing.


Ch.
And the bells will ring when the morris men come,
As we call in the Spring and we dance up the sun.


The bells will ring when the morris men come,
As we call in the Spring and we dance up the sun.

Gather in the dark, recall the Winter
Celebrate the tales that the old ones bring
The music rises with the first light's gleaming,
The dawn will break and the bells will ring.

Form the lines and turn together
Hear the clash of the staff as we shout and we sing,
The tunes all sound to the tattercoat's flying,
We call up the light as the day comes in.

Ancient ways with the season's turning,
The passing years see the dance go on
We sing the past as we dance to the future
We celebrate the year with the dawn of the sun.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtiKW32aVAE    CLOUDSTREET from “Dance Up the Sun” CD.

Nic (Nicole Murray, one half (and now one third) of the renowned Cloudstreet, with John Thompson) dances with SE Qld’s Belswagger Morris side and they are usually all to be found on the 1st May, Dancing Up the Sun on top of Brisbane’s Mt Coo-tha.



Cheers, R-J