X: 1
T: the BIRKS OF INVERMAY
O: 1811
B: "Caledonian Musical Repository", 1811, p.14-17
F: http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=87686121
Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: Corrected wrongly-placed bar line between last meastures of first strain.
M: C
L: 1/8
K: D
% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
(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***
%page 15
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 d4 ::
w: melts* the* u-ni-*ver-sal* lay.
(AG) | F3 A (B>AB) d | (e>de) f B3 b |
w: Let* us, A-man-**da, time-**ly wise, Like
(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: mang* the birks of* In-ver-may.
%page 16
W:2.The lav'rocks now, and lintwhites sing;
W:  The rocks around with echoes ring;
W:  The mavis, and the blackbird's lay,
W:  In tuneful strains do glad the day;
W:  The woods now wear their summer suits;
W:  To mirth all nature now invites:
W:  Let us be blythesome then, and gay,
W:  Amang 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;
W:  The busy bees, with humming noise,
W:  And all the reptile kind rejoice:
W:  Let us, like them, then sing and play
W:  About 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;
%page 17
W:  The circling sun does now advance,
W:  And all the planets round him dance:
W:  Let us as jovial be as they,
W:  Amang the birks of Invermay.
W:
W:5.But soon the winter of the year,
W:  And age, life's winter, will appear;
W:  At this thy lovely 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.
% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -