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The Birks Of Invermay     Credits: David Malloch; arranged by Karine Polwart     Appears On: Fairest Floo'er     Language: Scots-English

Lyrics:

Behold the hills and dales around
Wi' lowing flocks and herds abound
The wanton kids and frisking lambs
Gambol and dance aroond their dams
The busy bee wi' humming noise
And a' the reptile kind rejoice
Let us like them then sport and play
Amang the Birks o' Invermay

How soon the winter o' the year
And age life's winter do appear
'Tis then your living bloom will fade
And that will strip the verdant shade
Oor taste of pleasure then is o'er
And the feathered sangsters are no more
When they droop and we decay
Fareweel the Birks o' Invermay

Hark how the waters as they fa'
Loudly my love tae gladness ca'
The wanton waves sport in the beams
And the fishes play throughout the streams
The circling sun does now advance
And a' the planets 'roond them dance
Let us be blythesome and gay
Amang the Birks o' Invermay
Amang the Birks o' Invermay