When Wild Ward Deadly Blast Lyrics

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,Burns Robert - When Wild Ward Deadly Blast - http://motolyrics.com/burns-robert/when-wild-ward-deadly-blast-lyrics.html

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."

@Scots @war @return @love

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