Loreena Mckennitt - Kellswater lyrics

Here`s a health to you bonny Kellswater

Where you get all the pleasures of life

Where you get all the fishing and fowling

And a bonny wee lass for your wife.

Oh it`s down where yon waters run muddy

I`m afraid they will never run clear

And it`s when I begin for to study

My mind is on him that`s not here.

And it`s this one and that one may court him

But if any one gets him but me

It`s early and late I will curse them

The parting lovely Willie from me.

Oh a father he calls on his daughter

Two choices I`ll give unto thee

Would you rather see Willie`s ship a sailing

See him hung like a dog on yonder tree.

Oh father, dear father, I love him

I can no longer bide it from thee

Through an acre of fire I would travel

Along with the lovely Willie to be.

Oh hard was the heartbreak I`m finding

She took from her full heart`s delight

May the chains of old Ireland come find them

And softly their pillows at night.

Oh yonder there`s a ship on the ocean

And she does not know which way to steer

From the east and the west she`s a-blowing

She reminds me of the charms of my dear.

Oh it`s yonder my Willie will be coming

He said he`d be here in the spring

And it`s down by yon green shades I`ll meet him

And among wild roses we`ll sing.

For a gold ring be placed on my finger

Saying love bear this in your mind

If ever I sail from old Ireland

You`ll mind I`ll not leave you behind.

Here`s a health to you bonny Kellswater

Where you get all the pleasures of life

Where you get all the fishing and fowling

And a bonny wee lass for your wife.