The Verdant Braes Of Screen-Altan

[ti:The Verdant Braes Of Screen] [ar:Altan] [al:Another Sky] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Verdant Braes Of Screen - Altan [00:07.84]As I roved out one evening fair [00:12.94] [00:14.56]By the verdant braes of Screen [00:18.77] [00:21.02]I set my back to a hawthorn tree [00:27.24] [00:28.81]To view the sun in the west country [00:33.56] [00:35.68]And the dew on the forest green [00:39.53] [00:46.51]A lad I spied by Abhann's side [00:51.95] [00:53.44]And a maiden by his knee [00:57.37] [00:59.80]And he was as dark [01:03.16]As the very brown wood [01:06.12] [01:07.65]And she all whey and wan to see [01:13.03] [01:14.56]All whey and wan was she [01:18.41] [01:25.28]"Oh sit you down on the grass " he said [01:30.56] [01:32.01]"On the dewy grass so green [01:38.45]For the wee birds all have come and gone [01:44.73] [01:46.24]Since I my true love have seen " he said [01:51.62] [01:53.12]"Since I my true love have seen" [01:57.50] [02:03.82]"Then I'll not sit on the grass " she said [02:09.30] [02:10.79]"Nor be a love of thine [02:14.65] [02:17.32]For I hear you love a Connaught maid [02:23.36] [02:24.86]And your heart's no longer mine " she said [02:30.48] [02:31.89]"And your heart's no longer mine" [02:35.86] [02:42.87]"And I will climb a high high tree [02:49.50]And I'll rob a wild bird's nest [02:54.61] [02:56.01]And back I'll bring whatever I do find [03:02.33] [03:03.72]To the arms that I love best " she said [03:09.15] [03:10.67]"To the arms that I love best"