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T: Afton Water
C: music: Trad.?
C: words: Robert Burns
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B: Elias Howe "The Musician's Companion" V.4 Edinburgh 1792
S: http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=87798076
Z: 2015 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
K: F
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C2 | F2 A2 (GF) | (FA) B2 (AG) | F2 A2 GF | {F2}E4
w: Flow gent-ly sweet* Af-*ton a-*mong thy green* braes,
C2 | F2 A2 GF | GA c2 (fd) | c2 BA GA | F4 |[| (cd) |
w: Flow gent-ly, I'll* sing* thee a* song in* thy* praise; My*
_e2 (fe) (dc) | c2 d2 f2 | f2 A2 GF | (F2 E2) C2 |
w: Ma-ry's* a-*sleep by thy mur-mur-ing* stream,* Flow
F2 A2 GF | (GA) c2 fd | c2 BA GA | F4 |]
w: gent-ly, sweet* Af-*ton, dis-*turb not* her* dream.
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W: Thou stock dove whose echo resounds thro' the glen,
W: Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den,
W: Thou green crested lapwing thy screaming forbear,
W: I charge you disturb not my slumbering Fair.
W:
W: How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighbouring hills,
W: Far mark'd with the courses of clear, winding rills;
W: There daily I wander as noon rises high,
W: My flocks and my Mary's sweet Cot in my eye.
W:
W: How pleasant thy banks and green vallies below,
W: Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow;
W: There oft as mild ev'ning weeps over the lea,
W: The sweet scented birk shades my Mary and me.
W:
W: Thy chrystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides,
W: And winds by the cot where my Mary resides;
W: How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave,
W: As gathering sweet flowerets she stems thy clear wave.
W:
W: Flow gently, sweet Alton, among thy green braes,
W: Flow gently, sweet River, the theme of my lays;
W: My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream,
W: Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.

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Song by Robert Burns
Country of origin: Scotland

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