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Loreena McKennitt
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Here's a health to you bonny Kellswater
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Where you get all the pleasures of life
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Where you get all the fishing and fowling
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And a bonny wee lass for your wife.
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Oh it's down where yon waters run muddy
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I'm afraid they will never run clear
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And it's when I begin for to study
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My mind is on him that's not here.
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And it's this one and that one may court him
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But if any one gets him but me
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It's early and late I will curse them
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The parting lovely Willie from me.
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Oh a father he calls on his daughter
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Two choices I'll give unto thee
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Would you rather see Willie's ship a sailing
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See him hung like a dog on yonder tree.
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Oh father, dear father, I love him
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I can no longer bide it from thee
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Through an acre of fire I would travel
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Along with the lovely Willie to be.
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Oh hard was the heartbreak I'm finding
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She took from her full heart's delight
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May the chains of old Ireland come find them
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And softly their pillows at night.
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Oh yonder there's a ship on the ocean
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And she does not know which way to steer
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From the east and the west she's a-blowing
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She reminds me of the charms of my dear.
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Oh it's yonder my Willie will be coming
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He said he'd be here in the spring
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And it's down by yon green shades I'll meet him
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And among wild roses we'll sing.
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For a gold ring be placed on my finger
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Saying love bear this in your mind
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If ever I sail from old Ireland
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You'll mind I'll not leave you behind.
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Here's a health to you bonny Kellswater
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Where you get all the pleasures of life
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Where you get all the fishing and fowling
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And a bonny wee lass for your wife.
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Oh it's when she heard this dreadful news
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She flew into despair
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By the wringing of her milk white hands
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And the tearing of her hair.
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Saying "If Johnny he is drowned
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No man on earth I'll take,
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But through lonesome groves and valleys
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I'll wander for his sake."
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Oh it's when he saw her loyalty
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No longer could he stand
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He flew into her arms saying
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"Betsy I'm the man."
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"Saying Betsy I'm the young man
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The cause of all your pain
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But since we've met on Claudy Banks
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We'll never part again."
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