The Scottish songs - National Library of Scotland

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Oblivion of woe o'er my mind gently stealing,
A pause from keen anguish one moment is felt.
The moon's yellow light o'er the still lake is sleeping
Ah^ near the sad spot Mary sleeps in her tomb I
Again the heart swells, the eye flows with weeping,
And the sweets of the vale are all shaded with gloom.*
O THAT I HAD NE'ER BEEN MARRIED.
Tune—Crowdie.
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O THAT I had ne'er been married
I wad never had nae care ;
Now I've gotten wife and bairns,
And they cry Crowdie evermair.
Ance crowdie, twice crowdie.
Three times crowdie in a day
Gin ye crowdie ony mair,
Ye'll crowdie a my meal away
Waefu' want and hunger fley me,
Glowrin by the hallan en'
Sair I fecht them at the door
But aye I'm eerie they come ben.
Ance crowdie, &c.f
* From Johnson's Musical Museum, vol. VI. 1803.'
t The first verse of this song, and the chorus, were corrected for the
Musical Museum by Burns. The second verse was entirely the ,composition
of the poet.
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