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Gloomy Winter     Credits: Lyrics by Robert Tannahill     Appears On: Sugarcane     Language: Scots-English

Lyrics:

Lav'rocks fan the snow-white clouds
Lav'rocks fan the snow-white clouds

Gloomy winter's noo awa', soft the westlin breezes blaw
Among the birks o' Stanley shaw the mavis sings fu' cheerie
Sweet the crawflowers early bell decks Glenifer's dewy dell
Blooming like your bonny sel', my ain, my airtless dearie

Come, my lassie, let us stray o'er Glenkilloch's sunny brae
And blithely spend the gowden day midst joys that ne'er wearie
Trees may bud and birds may sing, flowers may bloom and verger spring
But joy to me they canna bring unless wi' ye my dearie

Soft the westlin breezes blaw
Soft the westlin breezes blaw

Towering o'er the Newton woods, lav'rocks fan the snow-white clouds
Siller soughs wi' downy buds adorn the banks sae brearie
Around the silvan fairy nooks, feathery breckans fringe the rocks
Beneath the brae the burnie jouks and ilka thing is cheerie

Come, my lassie, let us stray o'er Glenkilloch's sunny brae
And blithely spend the gowden day midst joys that ne'er wearie
Trees may bud and birds may sing, flowers may bloom and verger spring
But joy to me they canna bring unless wi' ye my dearie

Lav'rocks fan the snow-white clouds
Lav'rocks fan the snow-white clouds
Lav'rocks fan the snow-white clouds
Lav'rocks fan the snow-white clouds