Before This World / Jolly Springtime

[Verse 1]

Before this world was as we know it now

Before the land and sea were formed at all

Before the stars were made to burn and shine

Little love of mine, darling one

Who can pretend to understand at all

No one can both inside and outside be

Who can suppose he knows the way this goes

Little lamb, never mind

So let us love and let us not delay

The world is old and it will never last

Our share of joy is in this moment past

Will you come away, come away

Fall into Jesus baby child

Give up the love that takes and breaks your heart

Let go the weight of all that holds you here

Little love of mine, darling one

[Chorus]

Oh the jolly springtime

In the merry month of May

Oh the heavenly hours

Oh the come again day

[Verse 2]

Let the day run long

Let the river run high

That tomorrow may live

So must yesterday die

Let the resin risin’ up in the tree

Make the green leaf bud

The bird and the bee and the fish in the sea

Feeling it in my blood

[Chorus]

Oh the jolly springtime

All in the merry month of May

Oh the heavenly hours

Oh the come again day

[Verse 3]

Yes the winter was bitter and long

So the spring’ll be sweet

Come along with a rhythm and a song

Watch creation repeat

Thin thin the moment is thin

Ever so narrow the now

Everybody say got to live in today

Don’t nobody know how

[Chorus]

Oh the jolly springtime

In the merry month of May

Oh the heavenly hours

Oh the come again day