Kellswater - Andy Irvine

Andy Irvine at Mighty Fine Guitars, Lafayette, CA, September 2012. A Vortex Production, filmed and edited by Jeff Peach.
Song lyrics graciously supplied by Patrick from 'AndyzFanz'.

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Kellswater
New Words & Music: Andy Irvine

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
O 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 them that's not here

For it's this one and that one may court him
But if anyone gets him but me
It's early and late I will curse them
That parted lovely Willie from me
O a father he calls on his daughter
"Two choices I'll give unto thee:
Would you rather see Willie's ship a-sailing,
Or see him hung like a dog from yon tree?"

"O father, dear father, I love him;
I can no longer hide it from thee;
Through an acre of fire I would travel
Along with lovely Willie to be."
But it's woe to the heart that confines me
And keeps me from my heart's delight
Strong walls and cold irons they bind me
And a stone for my pillow at night

O yonder's a ship on the ocean
And she does not know which way to steer
From the east to the west she's a-blowing
She reminds me of the ways of my dear
O it's yonder my Willie will be coming
He said he'd be here in the spring
And down by yon green shades I'll meet him
And among yon wild roses we'll sing

For a gold ring he 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."
Farewell to you bonny Kellswater
Where you'll get all the pleasures of life
Where you'll get all the fishing and fowling
And a bonny wee lass for your wife.
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