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LAST TIME I CAME O'ER THE MUIR

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LAST TIME I CAME O'ER THE MUIR - staff notation
X: 52
T: LAST TIME I CAME O'ER THE MUIR
O: 1811
B: "Caledonian Musical Repository", 1811, p.206-209
F: http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=87686121
Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C
L: 1/8
K: D
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(A>G) | F2 (ED) d3 e | {de}f2 (ed) c2 (BA) |
w: The* last time* I came o'er the* muir, I*
B3 A (F>EF) A | (B3 c) d2 (A>G) | F2 (ED)
w: left my love** be-hind* me: Ye* pow'rs! what*
d3 e | f2 (ed) c2 (BA) | (B>c) (de) (fed) c |
w: pain do I en-*dure, When* soft* i-*de-**as
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(B3 c) d2 :: (ed) | c2 (BA) A3 f | (ec) (B>c)
w: mind* me. Soon* as the* rud-dy morn* dis-*
A3 F | A3 d (A>BA) F | A4 d2 A2 | (B>AB) d
w: play'd The beam-ing day** en-su-ing, I met** be-
B2 (AF) | (A>FA) B d3 e | (fe) (dB) (AB/c/d) G |
w: times my* love-**ly maid, In fit* re-*treats*** for
(F2 TE3) D :|
w: woo-*ing.
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W:2.Beneath the cooling shade we lay,
W:    Gazing and chastely sporting;
W:  We kiss'd, and promis'd time away,
W:    Till night spread her black curtain;
W:  I pitied all beneath the skies,
W:    Ev'n kings, when she was nigh me;
W:  In raptures I beheld her eyes,
W:    Which could but ill deny me.
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W:
W:3.Should I be call'd where cannons roar,
W:    Where mortal steel may wound me;
W:  Or cast upon some foreign shore,
W:    Where dangers may surround me;
W:  Yet hopes again to see my love,
W:    To feast on glowing kisses,
W:  Shall make my care at distance move.
W:    In prospect of such blisses.
W:
W:4.In all my soul there's not one place
W:    To let a rival enter;
W:  Since she excels in ev'ry grace,
W:    In her my love shall center.
W:  Sooner the seas shall cease to flow.
W:    Their waves the Alps shall cover;
W:  On Greenland's ice shall roses grow.
W:    Before I cease to love her.
W:
W:5.The next time I gang o'er the muir,
W:    She shall a lover find me;
W:  And that my faith is firm and pure,
W:    Though I left her behind me.
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W:  Then Hymen's sacred bonds shall chain
W:    My heart to her fair bosom;
W:  There, while my being does remain,
W:    My love more fresh shall blossom.
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