By Chance It Was-Clannad

[ti:By Chance It Was] [ar:Clannad] [al:Clannad 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]By Chance It Was - Clannad (克兰纳德家族乐团) [00:09.06]By chance it was I met my love [00:12.55] [00:13.23]It did me much surprise [00:16.52] [00:17.31]Down by a shady myrtle grove [00:21.08] [00:21.69]Just as the sun did rise [00:24.81] [00:25.77]The birds they sang right gloriously [00:29.21] [00:30.15]And pleasant was the air [00:33.08] [00:34.32]And there was non save she and I [00:37.91] [00:38.60]Among the flowers fair [00:42.31] [00:45.27]In dewy grass and green we walked [00:48.70] [00:49.37]She timid was and coy [00:52.39] [00:53.47]How can'st thou choose but pity me [00:57.02] [00:57.68]My pretty pearl my joy [01:01.17] [01:02.14]How comes it that thou stroll this way [01:05.57] [01:06.44]Sweet maiden tell me true [01:08.85] [01:10.56]Before bright phoebus' glittering ray [01:14.87]Has supped the morning dew [01:18.92] [01:21.49]I go to tend the flocks I love [01:24.83] [01:25.74]The ewes and tender lambs [01:28.75] [01:29.68]That pasture by the myrtle grove [01:33.07] [01:33.98]That gambol by their dams [01:37.20] [01:38.30]There I enjoy a pure content [01:41.53] [01:42.28]At dawning of the day [01:45.23] [01:46.43]Then hand in hand we lovers went [01:50.12] [01:50.90]To see the flock at play [01:54.35] [03:10.82]And as we wended down the road [03:14.17] [03:14.97]I said to her sweet maid [03:18.29] [03:19.19]Three years I in my place abode [03:22.62] [03:23.41]And three more must be stayed [03:26.66] [03:27.64]The three that I am bound so fast [03:31.06] [03:31.82]O fairest wait for me [03:34.81] [03:36.03]And when the weary years are past [03:39.86] [03:40.59]Then wedded we will be [03:43.90] [03:46.88]Three years are long three times too long [03:50.19] [03:50.95]Too lengthy the delay [03:54.06] [03:55.17]And then I answered in my song [03:58.88] [03:59.41]Hope wastes them quick away [04:02.18] [04:03.48]Where love is fervent fain and fast [04:07.12] [04:07.82]And knoweth not decay [04:10.93] [04:11.94]There nimbly fleet the seasons past [04:15.74] [04:16.68]Accounted as one day