We've been working in the field where all the crops are ripe and the fresh earth stains our hands and fingers brown
Mamma's hard at work boiling jams and jellies on the kitchen stove- there's still flour to be ground
And the north wind blows in setting all the leaves afire in red and gold when summer's over now

Something changes in the air, a faint and subtle change
the walls between the worlds begin to fade
In the field the bonfire rages, in the dark it shines
This is the time outside of time

Set a place beside the door for anything that comes
Food and drink, the finest we can spare
Faerie walk the streets tonight with others who have come
look and you will see them if you dare

It's the last hurrah a time of plenty when we tick away the last few moments of the year
So raise a glass to all that came before you as the wheel turns for just a moment everything is clear

And all around me now I feel the presence of the ancestors
who came before this time
Hospitible, we light a candle lights the way for them to find
thier way through our world tonight

A few stop here a moment, feast on food and drink before them
settle scores collect on debts long due
Say those things we left unsaid, make our peace with favored dead
look for omens, make our vows ring true