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Verdant Braes of Skreen (trad)
Debra Cowan

As I rode out one evening fair

By the verdant braes of Skreen

I put my back to the mossy tree

To view the sun in the west country

And the dew on the forest green


A lad I spied by Owen's side

And a maiden by his knee

And he was dark as the very brown wood

And she all whey and wan to see

All whey and wan was she


Sit you down on the grass, said he.

On the dewy grass so green

For the wee birds all have come and gone

Since I my love I have seen,” he said

“Since I my love I have seen


Oh I'll not sit on the grass, said she

Nor a love I’ll be of thine

For I hear you love a Connaught maid

And your heart's no longer mine, she said


And your heart's no longer mine.


And I'll not heed what the old man says

For his days are well nigh done

And I'll not heed what the young man says

For he's fair to many the one, she said.

Yes he's fair to many a one.


But I will climb a high, high tree

And I'll rob a wild bird's nest

And I'll bring back what find there

To the arms that I love best, she said.

To the arms that I love best.


As I rode out one evening fair

By the verdant braes of Skreen

I put my back to the mossy tree

To view the sun in the west country

And the dew on the forest green


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