Now Westlin Winds chords by Dick Gaughan

Intro 1
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Now westlin winds
Verse 1
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and slaughtering guns
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Bring autumn's pleasant weather
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The moorcock springs on
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whirring wings
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Among the blooming heather
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Now waving grain,
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wild o'er the plain
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Delights the weary farmer
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And the moon shines
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bright as I rove at night
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To muse upon my charmer
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The
Verse 2
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partridge
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loves the fruitful fells
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The plover loves the mountain
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The woodcock haunts the lonely dells
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The soaring hern the fountain
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Through lofty groves the cushat roves
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The path of man to shun it
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The hazel bush o'erhangs the thrush
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The spreading thorn the linnet
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Thus every kind
Verse 3
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pleasure find
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The savage and the tender
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Some social join and leagues combine
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Some solitary wander
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Avaunt! Away! the cruel sway,
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Tyrannic man's dominion
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The sportsman's joy,
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the murdering cry
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The fluttering, gory pinion
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Verse 4
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But Peggy dear the even
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ing's clear
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Thick flies the skimming swallow
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The sky is blue, the fields in view
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All fading green and yellow
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Come let us stray our gladsome way
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And view the charms of nature
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The rustling corn, the fruited thorn
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And every happy creature
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We'll gently walk
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and sweetly talk
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Till the silent moon shines clearly
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I'll grasp thy waist and,
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fondly pressed,
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Swear how I love thee dearly
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Not vernal showers to budding flowers
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Not autumn to the farmer
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So dear can be as thou to me
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My fair, my lovely charmer
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