Now Westlin Winds Kaela Rowan Inchyra Arts Club Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland video of Kaela Rowan singing Now Westlin Winds at Inchyra Arts Club on visit to Glencarse, Perthshire.

Song composed by Robert Burns

Now westlin winds and slaught’ring guns
Bring Autumn's pleasant weather;
The gorcock springs on whirring wings
Amang the blooming heather:
Now waving grain, wide o’er the plain,
Delights the weary farmer;
The moon shines bright, as I rove at night
To muse upon my charmer.

The paitrick loes the fruitfu fells,
The plover loes the mountains;
The woodcock haunts the lonely dells,
The soaring hern the fountains
Thro lofty groves the cushat roves,
The path o man to shun it;
The hazel bush o’erhangs the thrush,
The spreading thorn the linnet.

Thus ev’ry kind their pleasure find,
The savage and the tender;
Some social join, and leagues combine,
Some solitary wander:
Avaunt, away, the cruel sway!
Tyrannic man’s dominion!
The sportsman’s joy, the murd’ring cry,
The flutt’ring gory pinion

But Peggy dear, the evening’s clear,
Thick flies the skimming swallow,
The sky is blue, the fields in view
All fading green and yellow:
Come let us stray our gladsome way,
And view the charms of Nature;
The rustling corn, the fruited thorn,
And ilka happy creature.

We’ll gently walk, and sweetly talk,
While the silent moon shines clearly;
I’ll clasp thy waist, and fondly prest,
Swear how I loe thee dearly:
Not vernal show’rs to budding flow’rs,
Not Autumn to the farmer,
So dear can be as thou to me,
My fair, my lovely charmer !

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