Lost Winter Song

Late one December in faraway snow
 I followed a trail to a candlelit show
 Where a chorus of singers in handcrafted red
 Sang this refrain twirling round in my head
 Ting rah sha zay ree yah zon
 Ting rah sha zay ree lime
 I sing this melody
 Through all the changes of time
 In this dark forest the music shone bright
 Like a strange star in the fog covered night
 Twelve mandolins with their shimmering strings
 Strummed like the joyous dove's fluttering wings
 Ting rah sha zay ree yah zon
 Ting rah sha zay ree lime
 I sing this melody
 Through all the changes of time
 The wonder of magic is how soon it's lost
 The words of those singers have gone like spring frost
 But the music still dances insistently on
 So I sing these words now for this lost winter song
 Ting rah sha zay ree yah zon
 Ting rah sha zay ree lime
 I sing this melody
 Through all the changes of time
 Ting rah sha zay ree yah zon
 Ting rah sha zay ree lime
 I sing this melody
 Through all the changes of time
 Ting rah sha zay ree yah zon
 Ting rah sha zay ree lime
 I sing this melody
 Through all the changes of time