The Verdant Braes of Screen chords by Briege Murphy

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Verse 1
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As I roved out one evening fair,
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By the verdant braes of Screams,
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I  set my bat to a hawthorn tree,
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To view the sun in the West Country,
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The Jew on the forest green,
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A lad I spied by a  barn's side,
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And a maiden by his knee,
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And he was dark as the berry -brown red,
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And she all the way and warm to see,
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All the way and warm was she.
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Sit you down on the grass he said,
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On the dewy grass so green,
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For the wee birds they have
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come and gone,
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Since my true love I've seen, he said.
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Since my true love I've seen,
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I'll not sit on the grass, she said.
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Or be a love of thine,
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For here you love a con outmanned.
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Your heart's no longer mine, she said,
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No, your heart's no longer mine.
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And I'll not mind what an old man says
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For his days are nigh ere done
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And I'll not mind what a young man says,
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for he's fair for everyone, she said,
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he's fair for everyone
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And I would climb a high, high tree
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and rub a wild bird's nest
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And I'll bring by my singing boat
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To the arms that I  love best, he said
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To the arms that I love best