Sweet Afton lyrics
Song information
Artist: Nickel Creek
Album: Nickel Creek
Lyrics
Flow gently, sweet afton, among thy green braes
Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise;
My mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream
Flow gently, sweet afton, disturb not her dream
Thou stock-dove whose echo resounds thro' the glen
Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den
Thou green-crested lapwing, thy screaming forebear
I charge you disturb not my slumbering fair
How lofty, sweet afton, thy neighboring hills
Far mark'd with the courses of clear winding rills
There daily I wander as noon rises high
My flocks and my mary's sweet cot in my eye
How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below
Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow;
There oft as mild ev'ning sweeps over the lea
The sweet scented birk shades my mary and me
Thy crystal stream, afton, how lovely it glides
And winds by the cot where my mary resides
How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave
As gathering sweet flow'rets she stems thy clear wave
Flow gently, sweet afton, among thy green braes
Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays
My mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream
Flow gently, sweet afton, disturb not her dream
[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]
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