Joy of my earliest days - Henry A. Lambeth

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"Air: ''One day I heard Mary sing''"

◈ Genre / Form → Partsongs ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → Lowland Scots

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 8

CPDL # 77080

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2023-11-08

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

Joy of my earliest days, Why must I grieve thee? Theme of my fondest lays, Mary, I maun leave thee! Leave thee, love, leave thee! How shall I leave thee? Now absence thy truth will prove, For oh! I maun leave thee! Think aft on the time that’s gane, When twa happy bairnies, We played at penny stane Amang the green fairnies. Cauld an’ hot, ear’ an’ late, There we forgather’d; Where yows wander’d on the knowes And Hawkie was tether’d. When on yon mossy stane, Wild weeds o’er growin’, Ye sit at e’en your lane, And hear the burnie rowin’; Oh! think on this partin’ hour, Down by the Garry, And to Him that has the pow’r Commend me, my Mary!

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