the BIRKS OF INVERMAY

X: 5
T: the BIRKS OF INVERMAY
O: 1806
B: "Caledonian Musical Repository", 1806, p.116-118
F: http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=87661539
Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: Fixed wrongly-placed bar line between measures 7 and 8.
M: C
L: 1/8
K: D
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(fg) | a3 B (af) (ed) | (e>de) f B3 d |
w: The* smil-ing morn,* the* breath-**ing  spring, in-
(A>BA) F A2 (dA) | F2 (A>B) A2 (d/e/f/g/) |
w: vite** the tune-ful* birds to* sing; And***
a3 (bc'/d'/) (af) (ed) | (gf) (ed) B2 (f>e) |
w: while they** war-*ble* from* each* spray, Love*
(dB) (AF) A2 (d>e) | f2 (ed) d2 :: (A/G/) |
w: melts* the* u-ni-*ver-sal* lay. Let*
F3 A (B>AB) d | (e>de) f B3 b |
w: us, A-man-**da, time-**ly wise, Like
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(a>ba) f (gf) (ed) | (ga) (b/a/g/f/) {f}e2 (ag) |
w: them** im-prove* the* hour* that*** flies, And*
(fa) (bc') d'3 b | (af) (ed) B2 (f>e) |
w: in* soft* rap-tures waste* the* day, A-*
(dB) (AF) A2 (de) | f2 Te2 d2 :|
w: mong* the* birks of* In-ver-may.
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W:2.For soon the winter of the year,
W:  And age, life's winter, will appear;
W:  At this thy living bloom will fade,
W:  As that will strip the verdant shade:
W:  Our taste of pleasure then is o'er;
W:  The feather'd songsters are no more;
W:  And when they droop, and we decay,
W:  Adieu the birks of Invermay.
W:
W:3.Behold, the hills and vales around,
W:  With lowing herds and flocks abound;
W:  The wanton kids and frisking lambs
W:  Gambol and dance about their dams;
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W:  The busy bees with humming noise,
W:  And all the reptile kind rejoice;
W:  Let us, like them, then, sing and play
W:  Among the birks of Invermay.
W:
W:4.Hark! how the waters, as they fall,
W:  Loudly my love to gladness call;
W:  The wanton waves sport in the beams,
W:  And fishes play throughout the streams;
W:  The circling sun does now advance,
W:  And all the planets round him dance;
W:  Let us as jovial be as they,
W:  Among the birks of Invermay.
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Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/CaledonianMusicalRepository/1806/0005
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/CaledonianMusicalRepository/1806/Birks_of_Invermay/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/CaledonianMusicalRepository/Birks_of_Invermay_1806/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/CaledonianMusicalRepository/alltunes/0013