The old man took one final sip, then lay a drinker’s dream From dusty vaults to autumn sun in ripe and rolling green Spangled bronze and coral red, all crown a pungent sky His harvest bleeds from noble trees and a thousand ripples fly Chorus: Sweet summer sun Those drops of labour run And shine, Like the apple of his eye For days and weeks, in blistering heat These fruits will bruise and sigh Orchard love and cider blood Will drink the season dry These presses grind, they creak and crush One vat for every day Fever burns and barrels churn Ferment the words she laid Chorus: