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Translating uncommon words, the first verse could read: ::I've heard the singing, at the ewe-milking, ::Lasses a-singing before dawn of the day; ::But now they are moaning on every milking-green; ::"The Flowers of the Forest are all withered away". The song is mentioned in '' The Scots Musical Museum '' as ''The flowres of the Forrest'', and the air (or tune) apparently survived, but several versions of the words were written down later, the most usual being by Jean Elliot published about 1755 - see links below. A powerful song by the Scots/ Australian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle , " No Man's Land ", contains repeated reference to ''Flowers of the Forest'', and muses over the grave of a World War I soldier, each chorus asking of his burial, ''did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?''. The song has been covered by Fairport Convention and June Tabor , and matches Bogle's " And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda ", about the Gallipoli landings in the same war. The Dropkick Murphys (a band from Boston) also covered a song on their 2005 album "The Warrior's Code," with the song title "The Green Fields of France." Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly? Did they sound the death march, as they lowered you down? Did the band play “The Last Post” in chorus? Did the pipes play “The Flowers of the Forest?” EXTERNAL LINKS
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