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T:Chevalier's Lament, The
C:Robert Burns
S:Digital Tradition, chvlamnt
H:tune: Captain Okean (220)
O:Scots
Z:DT: chvlamnt
M:6/8
L:1/8
Q:3/8=80
W:The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning,
W:The murmuring streamlet winds clear thro' the vale,
W:The primroses blow in the dews of the morning,
W:And wild scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale:
W:But what can give pleasure, or what can seem fair,
W:When the lingering moments are number'd by care ?
W:No flow'rs gaily springing, nor birds sweetly singing,
W:Can soothe the sad bosom of joyless despair!
W:
W:The deed that I dar'd, could it merit their malice,
W:A king and a father to place on his throne ?
W:His right are these hills, and his right are those valleys,
W:Where the wild beasts find shelter, tho I can find none!
W:But 'tis not my suff'rings this wretched, forlorn-
W:My brave gallant friends,'Tis your ruin I mourn!
W:Your faith prov'd so loyal in hot bloody trial,
W:Alas! can I make it no better return?
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