Set the Rafters Ringing

I came in from the dark with the frost in my hair
And a hush, then a roar, "well, would you look who's there!"
Then the fiddler struck up and he called out my name
And the whole blessed hall was a stomp and a flame

So it's stamp on the boards and it's clap till they sting
Throw another log on and let the whole loft ring

Set the rafters ringing, set the whole roof alight
Every soul I ever loved in one room tonight
Spin me round the fire like the years never passed
I'm back for the night, so let's make the night last
Set the rafters ringing

Old Maggie's still pouring, the piper's gone grey
And the wee ones run wild through the reels and the fray
There's a chair that they kept and a song they'd all sing
And they crush me half-breathless and dance me round the ring

So it's stamp on the boards and it's clap till they sting
Throw another log on and let the whole loft ring

Set the rafters ringing, set the whole roof alight
Every soul I ever loved in one room tonight
Spin me round the fire like the years never passed
I'm back for the night, so let's make the night last
Set the rafters ringing

Come the morning I'll go back where I belong
To the frost and the wild and the wind and the song
But the fire's high tonight and the fiddle's not done
So we'll dance till the dark gives it up to the sun

Set the rafters ringing, set the whole roof alight
Every soul I ever loved in one room tonight
Spin me round the fire like the years never passed
I'm back for the night, so let's make the night last
Set the rafters ringing

Set the rafters ringing till the last log dies
I'll be back down the mountain 'fore the next snow flies
Set the rafters ringing... set the rafters ringing