By Chance It Was-Clannad

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[00:00.00]By Chance It Was - Clannad
[00:08.74]By chance it was I met my love
[00:12.91]It did me much surprise
[00:16.99]Down by a shady myrtle grove
[00:21.36]Just as the sun did rise
[00:25.44]The birds they sang right gloriously
[00:29.83]And pleasant was the air
[00:33.99]And there was non save she and I
[00:38.27]Among the flowers fair
[00:44.95]In dewy grass and green we walked
[00:49.04]She timid was and coy
[00:53.14]How can'st thou choose but pity me
[00:57.35]My pretty pearl my joy
[01:01.81]How comes it that thou stroll this way
[01:06.11]Sweet maiden tell me true
[01:10.24]Before bright phoebus' glittering ray
[01:14.54]Has supped the morning dew
[01:21.17]I go to tend the flocks I love
[01:25.42]The ewes and tender lambs
[01:29.35]That pasture by the myrtle grove
[01:33.65]That gambol by their dams
[01:37.97]There I enjoy a pure content
[01:41.95]At dawning of the day
[01:46.11]Then hand in hand we lovers went
[01:50.57]To see the flock at play
[03:10.49]And as we wended down the road
[03:14.64]I said to her sweet maid
[03:18.86]Three years I in my place abode
[03:23.08]And three more must be stayed
[03:27.32]The three that I am bound so fast
[03:31.49]O fairest wait for me
[03:35.70]And when the weary years are past
[03:40.26]Then wedded we will be
[03:46.55]Three years are long three times too long
[03:50.63]Too lengthy the delay
[03:54.84]And then I answered in my song
[03:59.09]Hope wastes them quick away
[04:03.15]Where love is fervent fain and fast
[04:07.49]And knoweth not decay
[04:11.61]There nimbly fleet the seasons past
[04:16.35]Accounted as one day