Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on July 24th 2002 by cat.
This tune has been added to 50 tunebooks.
Also known as Flow Gently Sweet Afton.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Afton Water
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Gmaj
D2 || G2 B2 AG | AB c2 BA | G2 B2 AG | G2 F2 D2 |
G2 B2 AG | AB d2 ge | d2 cB AB | G4 de |
=f2 gf ed | d2 e2 g2 | g2 B2 AG | G2 F2 D2 |
G2 B2 AG | AB d2 ge | d2 cB AB | G6 ||
Afton Water
I think auld Robbie Burns wrote a song to this starting "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton" but I don't know the words. It's a nice gentle air.
# Posted on July 24th 2002 by cat
Lyrics
Just for anyone who cares to know. They're nice lyrics.
Flow gently, sweet Afton,
amang 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 thro' the glen,
Ye wild whistly blackbirds
in yon thorny den,
Thou green crested lapwing
thy screaming forbear,
I charge you, disturb not
my slumbering fair.
How lofty, sweet Afton,
thy neighboring hills,
Far mark'd with the courses
of clear winding rills;
There daily I wander
as noon rises high,
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
weeps over the lea,
The sweet-scented birk shades
my Mary and me.
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,
amang thy green braes,
Flow gently, sweet river,
the theme of my lays;
My Mary's asleep
by thy murmuring stream,
Flow gently, sweet Afton,
disturb not her dreams
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