Flow Gently Sweet Afton....a Scottish traditional song (with lyrics)..by Robert Burns

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The words to this Scottish song come from a poem, by Robert Burns the great Scottish poet, written in 1791. The music was written in 1837 by E Spilman. The river in the video is unfortunately not the Scottish river Afton , but the river Cam as it winds it's way though Cambridge
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 from the glen
Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den
Thou green-crested lapwing, thy screaming forbear
I charge you disturb not my slumbering fair

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 flow'rets, 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 dream