**[Intro – Fiddle, bagpipes, bodhrán and stomping feet]** Hey! Ho! The night is young, Lift your glass and join the song! Round the fire and down the hall, There's a season for us all! **[Verse 1]** The rain came down on the Highland braes, We laughed and danced through the stormy days, With muddy boots and a heart full of cheer, We drank to the ones that we held most dear! The years ran by like a mountain stream, Some brought sorrow, some brought dreams, But we've still got breath, and we've still got ale, So raise up your voice till the rafters wail! **[Chorus – Strong, catchy, everybody singing]** So raise a glass to the years gone by, To the rain, the earth, the endless sky! For every sorrow, every tear, There was a song to bring us cheer! Don't weep, my love, when the daylight ends, For life takes, gives, and makes amends! The sun must set, the night must fall, And there's a season for us all! **[Verse 2]** There's a time for planting, a time for grain, A time for sunshine, a time for rain, A time for courting beneath the moon, And a time for dancing till half-past noon! There's a time for winning, a time to lose, A time for boots and a time for shoes, But whatever fortune may bring our way, We'll sing it loud till the break of day! **[Chorus]** So raise a glass to the years gone by, To the rain, the earth, the endless sky! For every sorrow, every tear, There was a song to bring us cheer! Don't weep, my love, when the daylight ends, For life takes, gives, and makes amends! The sun must set, the night must fall, And there's a season for us all! **[Verse 3 – Fiddle answers every second line]** When we were young, we could dance all night, And leap the walls by the pale moonlight! Now our knees complain when the fiddles play, But we'll dance regardless till break of day! Our hair turned silver, our beards turned grey, But the heart still jumps when the pipes strike away! So grab your sweetheart and spin her round, Let the hills of Scotland shake with the sound! **[Instrumental Break – Fast Scottish fiddle and bagpipes]** *Fiddle solo, bagpipe response, handclaps, boots stomping — repeat the melody twice, faster the second time.* **[Verse 4 – Playful, rowdy pub chorus]** There's a lass in the corner with fire in her eyes, A lad at the bar telling ten thousand lies! The ale is flowing, the fire burns bright, And nobody's going to bed tonight! So toast to the living, toast to the dead, Toast to the words that we should have said! And toast to the love that carried us through, To the old, to the young, and the whole bonnie crew! **[Final Chorus – Full voices, powerful and joyful]** So raise a glass to the years gone by, To the rain, the earth, the endless sky! For every sorrow, every tear, There was a song to bring us cheer! Don't weep, my love, when the daylight ends, For life takes, gives, and makes amends! The sun must set, the night must fall, And there's a season for us all! **[Double-Time Outro – Fiddle, bagpipes, clapping and stomping]** Hey! Ho! Let the good times roll! Raise your glass and warm your soul! Hey! Ho! Let the pipesmen call! There's a season for us all! **[Final Shout – Everybody]** There's a time to live! There's a time to love! There's a time to dance beneath the stars above! So drink to the years, both the great and the small — **A HEALTHY LIFE AND A SEASON FOR US ALL!** *[Final fiddle flourish, three stomps, one mighty cheer: “SLÀINTE!”]*
