Lyrics - When Wild Ward Deadly Blast by Burns Robert

WHEN
WILD
WAR'
D
DEADLY
BLAST(
Robert
Burns)
When wild war's deadly blast was blawn,
And gentle peace returning,
Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless
And mony a widow mourning.
I left the lines and tented field
Where lang
I'd been a lodger
My humble knapsack all my wealth
A poor but honest sodger.
At length
I reached the bonnie glen
Where early life
I sported;
I pass'd the mill and trysting thorn
Where
Nancy oft
I courted.
Wha spied
I but my ain dear maid
Down by her mother's dwelling,
And turn'd me round to hide the flood
That in my e'e was swelling.
She gazed, she redden'd like a rose
Syne pale as any lily,
She sank within my arms and cried,"
Art thou my ain dear
Willie?" "
By
Him that made you sun and sky
By whom true love's regarded
I am the man!
And thus may still
True lovers be rewarded.""
The wars are owre, an'
I've come hame
And find the still true-hearted;
Tho' poor in gear, we're rich in love
And mair we'se ne'er be parted."
Quoth she, "
My grand-sire left me gowd
A mailin plenished fairly
Then come, my faithful sodger lad
Thou'rt welcome to it dearly."filename[
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