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Sung by The Livingstone Trio
I've heard the liltin,
at the ewe milkin,
Lassies a-liltin before the dawn oday;
Now they are
moaning on ilka green loaning,
"The Flooers o the Forest are a' wede awa".
At e'en in the gloamin, nae younkers are
stacks wi' the lasses at bogle to play.
But ilk quine sits drearie, lamentin her
flooers o the forest are a' wede awa.
Dool an wae the order
"Then gone lads tae the Border!"
The English there fur yince by guile wan
flooers o the forest, that fought aye the foremost,
The prime o oor lan are cauld in the clay.