The Wee Birds All Have Come And Gone / Fisherman's

As I roved out one evening fair
By the verdant braes of Screen
I set my back to a hawthorn tree
To view the sun in the west country
The dew on the forest green

A lad I spied by our burn side
And a maiden on his knee
And he was dark as the berry brown red
And she all way and worn to see
All way and worn was she

Oh sit you down on the grass, he said
On the dewy grass so green
For the wee birds all have come and gone
Since I've my true love seen, he said
Since I've my true love seen

Then I'll not sit on the grass, she said
Nor be a lover of thine
For I hear you have another one
And your heart's no longer mine, she said
And your heart's no longer mine

And I'll not heed what an old man says
For his days are well nigh done
And I'll not heed what the young man says
For he's fair for many's the one, she said
For he's fair for many's the one