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[00:29.37] As I roved out one evening fair
[00:36.05] By the verdant braes of Skreen.
[00:41.36] I set my back to a hawthorn tree
[00:47.40] To view the sun in the west country,
[00:54.03] And the dew on the forest green.
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[01:00.16] A lad I spied by Abhann's side
[01:06.40] And a maiden by his knee.
[01:11.90] And he was as dark as the very brown wood
[01:17.98] And she all whey and wan to see,
[01:24.22] All whey and wan was she.
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[01:30.15] "Oh sit you down on the grass," he said.
[01:36.85] "On the dewy grass so green
[01:42.28] For the wee birds all have come and gone
[01:48.38] Since I my true love have seen," he said.
[01:54.77] "Since I my true love have seen"
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[02:27.26] "Then I'll not sit on the grass," she said
[02:34.25] "Nor be a love of thine
[02:39.46] For I hear you love a Connaught girl
[02:46.85] And your heart's no longer mine," she said
[02:53.50] "And your heart's no longer mine."
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[02:59.26] "But I will climb a high, high tree
[03:05.99] And I'll rob a wild bird's nest
[03:11.51] And back I'll bring what I find there
[03:17.49] To the arms that I love best," she said
[03:23.84] "To the arms that I love best."