Sweet Afton

Album: Nickel Creek (2000)
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  • Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes
    Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise
    My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream
    Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream

    Thou stock-dove whose echo resounds through the glen
    Oh, ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den
    Thou green-crested lapwing, thy screaming forbear
    Oh, I charge you disturb not my slumbering fair

    Oh, how lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighboring hills
    Far marked with the courses of clear winding rills
    There daily I wander as noon rises high
    Oh, my flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye

    How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below
    Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow
    There oft as mild Evening sweeps over the lea
    The sweet scented birk shades my Mary and me

    Though thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides
    And winds by the cot where my Mary resides
    How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave
    As gathering sweet flowerets she stems thy clear wave

    Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes
    Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays
    My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream
    So, flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream Writer/s: Chris Thile, Robert Burns
    Publisher: O/B/O DistroKid
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  • Julia from Richland, WaI really like this song!! It is so very beautiful!! I just love it.
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