Scarborough Settlers Lament

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A / way wi' / Canada's / muddy / 
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creeks, and / Canada's / fields of /
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 pine,/
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Your / land of / wheat is a / goodly
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 land, but / oh, it / is not / 
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mine./
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The / heathy / hill, the / grassy / 
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dale. the / daisy / spangled / le -
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 / a,
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The / purling / burn and / craggy / 
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linn, Auld / Scotland's / glens give
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Oh, / I would / like to / hear a - /
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 gain the / lark on / Tinny's / hi 
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ll, and
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See the / wee bit / gowany that / 
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blooms be - / side the / rill. /
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Like / banished / Swiss who / views 
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 a - / far his / Alps with / longing
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F    / G
E'E. /
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I / gaze up - / on the / morning / 
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star that / shines on / my / count -
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ry. / /

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No / more I'll / win by / Eskdale / 
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glen or / Pentland's / craggy / co -
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mb. /
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The / days can / ne'er come / back a
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 - / gain of / thirty / years that's
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gone, /
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But / fancy / oft at / midnight / 
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hour will / steal a - / cross the / 
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se - /
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ea, / and
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Yester - / eve, in a / pleasant / 
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dream, I / saw the / old count - / 
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Break: Flute Solo (one verse 
instrumental)

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Each / well-known / scene that / met
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 my / view brought / childhood's / 
joys     / F    / G
to / mi - / nd.
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The / blackbird / sang on / Tushey /
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 linn the / song he / sang, "Lang /
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Sy - / ne".
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But / like a / dream time / flies a 
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- / way, a - / gain, the / morning /
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ca - / me,
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I a - / woke in / Cana - / da, three
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 / thousand / miles frae - / hame.

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Oh / like a / dream time / flies a -
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 / way, a - / gain, the / morning /
F    / G
ca - / me,
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I a - / woke in / Cana - / da, three
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 / thousand / miles frae - / hame.
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