Decemberists - January Hymn lyrics

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Hear the hymn to welcome in the day

Heralding a summer's early sway

And all the bulbs all coming in

To begin

Thrushes beating battle with the wind

Disrupts my reverie again

Pegging clothing on the line

Training jasmine how divine

And up the arbor to your door

And more

Standing on the landing with the war

You shouldered all the night before

But once upon it

The yellow bonnet

Garland all the lawn

You were waking

Day was breaking

A panoply of song

The summer comes to Springville

Baronet of ivory in the trees

Expanding on its empire by degrees

And all the branches burst abloom

And boom

Heaven sent the cardinal maroon

To decorate our living room

But once upon it

The yellow bonnet

Garland all the lawn

You were waking

Day was breaking

A panoply of song

And summer comes to Springville

Years from now

When this old lie

Isn't ambling anymore

Will I bring myself to rye?

I give my best to Springville

But once upon it

The yellow bonnet

Garland all the lawn

You were waking

Day was breaking

A panoply of song