Oh western wind when will thou blow The small rain down can rain And if my love were in my arms And I in my bed again And I in my bed again, and I in my bed again And I in my bed again Now western winds and slaughtering guns Bring autumn's pleasant weather The moorcock springs on whirring wings Among the blooming heather Now waving grain wild o'er the plain Delights the weary farmer The moon shines bright as I rove at night To muse upon my charier The partridge loves the fruitful fells The plover loves the mountain The woodcock haunts the lonely dells The soaring hern the fountains Through lofty groves the cushat roves Tine path of man to shun it The hazel bush o'erhangs the thrush The spreading thorn the linnet Thus every kind their pleasure find The savage and the tender Some social join, some leagues combine And some solitary wander Avaunt, away the cruel sway Tyranme man's dommion The sportsman's joy the murdering cry The fluttering gory pinion But Polly dear the evening's here Swift flies the skimming swallow The sky is blue, the field's 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 every happy creature We'll gently talk and sweetly walk Till the silent moon shines clearly I'll grasp thy waist and fondly pressed Swear how I love thee dearly Not vernal showers to budding flowers Not autumn to the farmer So dear can be as thou to me My fair, my lovely charmer Oh western wind when will thou blow The small rain down can rain And if my love were in my arms And I in my bed again And I in my bed again And I in my bed again