The Years Gane By - by
(Tune: The Cardin O’t)
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/ I’m thinkin noo the years gane by
/ micht weel be thon furst year we met
/ whan tyme an tyde…
(Tune: The Cardin O’t)
/
/ I’m thinkin noo the years gane by
/ micht weel be thon furst year we met
/ whan tyme an tyde…
Shall I compare you to an Autumn day?
The seasons, love, have grown more temperate.
Rough winds have shaken us along the way,
The summers gone too far to contemplate.
It’s been a long time
all the time we’ve spent
and we’ve had such times
All the love I have will not take her years away:
/ All the knowledge given not grant her time release,
/ Yet one…
‘Set ‘em up, kid’ was your usual cry
/ as you sauntered through the door
/ with a look in your eye and…
Oor boat is rigged tae face the greater sea,
/ The day daws blithely whan we must set sail.
/ Hou aften hae we…
I have worn everything you gave me –
/ The ring, of course, and that absurd string of beads
/ Reaching to…
Books in cosy littered room ,
Feet in slippered ease,
Silver candles in the gloom,
Stars in naked trees
We could go to Paris of course
/ but not so often. And it might not be quite
/ as cosy as…