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T:My Love's an Arbutus
C:Lyric by A.P. Graves. Tune traditional (Cavan): I rise in the morning with my heart full of woe/ The Coola Shore.
Z:Stanford-Petrie 507
B:The New National Song Book, Charles Villiers Stanford & Geoffrey Shaw, 1906.
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
L:1/8
Q:200
M:3/4
K:Dmix
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w:My_ love's_ an ar-bu_tus By the bor_ders of Lene,
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w:So_ slen-der and_ shape-ly In her gir-dle of green;
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w:And I mea-sure the_ plea-sure Of her eye's_ sap_phire_ sheen,
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w:By the blue_ skies that spar_kle Thro' that soft_ branch-ing screen.
W:My love's an arbutus
W:By the borders of Lene,
W:So slender and shapely
W:In her girdle of green;
W:And I measure the pleasure
W:Of her eye's sapphire sheen,
W:By the blue skies that sparkle
W:Thro' that soft branching screen.
W:
W:But tho' ruddy the berry
W:And snowy the flow'r,
W:That brighten together
W:The arbutus bow'r,
W:Perfuming and blooming
W:Through sunshine and show'r,
W:Give me her bright lips
W:And her laugh's pearly dower.
W:
W:Alas, fruit and blossom
W:Shall lie dead on the lea,
W:And Time's jealous fingers
W:Dim your young charms, Machree;
W:But unranging, unchanging,
W:You'll still cling to me,
W:Like the ever-green leaf
W:To the arbutus tree.