When Wild Ward Deadly Blast Lyrics

When Wild Ward Deadly Blast lyrics

WHEN WILD WAR'D DEADLY BLAST
(Robert Burns)
When wild war's deadly
blast was blawn,
And gentle peace returning,
Wi' mony a sweet babe
fatherless
And mony a widow mourning.
     I left the lines and
tented field
     Where lang I'd been a lodger
     My humble
knapsack all my wealth
     A poor but honest sodger.
At length I
reached the bonnie glen
Where early life I sported;
I pass'd the mill
and trysting thorn
Where Nancy oft I courted.
     Wha spied I but my
ain dear maid
     Down by her mother's dwelling,
     And turn'd me
round to hide the flood
     That in my e'e was swelling.
She gazed,
she redden'd like a rose
Syne pale as any lily,
She sank within my
arms and cried,
"Art thou my ain dear Willie?"
     "By Him that made
you sun and sky
     By whom true love's regarded
     I am the man!
And thus may still
     True lovers be rewarded."
"The wars are owre,
an' I've come hame
And find the still true-hearted;
Tho' poor in gear,
we're rich in love
And mair we'se ne'er be parted."
     Quoth she,
"My grand-sire left me gowd
     A mailin plenished fairly
     Then
come, my faithful sodger lad
     Thou'rt welcome to it dearly."
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