West Of Roan - Gentian

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Tell me your name, tell me your life
Tell me the colour of my true love's eyes
Blue as the sea, blue as the corn
Blue as the baby, never will be born

Oh, oh

You plant the corn, I'll call the sheep
In from the hillside where they gather to bleat
Gather them in
Gather them in

Mill me a bale of thistle-down
I'll spin, I'll spin, I'll spin until

Blue as the sea, blue as your eyes
Blue as, blue as the day
Blue as the day, blue as the deep
Cut me a shirt from the fleece of the sheep

Cut me the cloth, cut me the blue
And I'll know
And I'll know
Cut me and I'll know

Blue grows the gentian on the bank
Blue grows the gentian on the bank

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