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Here's a health to you bonny KellswaterWhere you get all the pleasures of lifeWhere you get all the fishing and fowlingAnd a bonny wee lass for your wife.Oh it's down where yon waters run muddyI'm afraid they will never run clearAnd it's when I begin for to studyMy mind is on him that's not here.And it's this one and that one may court himBut if any one gets him but meIt's early and late I will curse themThe parting lovely Willie from me.Oh a father he calls on his daughterTwo choices I'll give unto theeWould you rather see Willie's ship a sailingSee him hung like a dog on yonder tree.Oh father, dear father, I love himI can no longer bide it from theeThrough an acre of fire I would travelAlong with the lovely Willie to be.Oh hard was the heartbreak I'm findingLetras de cancionesShe took from her full heart's delightMay the chains of old Ireland come find themAnd softly their pillows at night.Oh yonder there's a ship on the oceanAnd she does not know which way to steerFrom the east and the west she's a-blowingShe reminds me of the charms of my dear.Oh it's yonder my Willie will be comingHe said he'd be here in the springAnd it's down by yon green shades I'll meet himAnd among wild roses we'll sing.For a gold ring be placed on my fingerSaying love bear this in your mindIf ever I sail from old IrelandYou'll mind I'll not leave you behind.Here's a health to you bonny KellswaterWhere you get all the pleasures of lifeWhere you get all the fishing and fowlingAnd a bonny wee lass for your wife.Oh it's when she heard this dreadful newsShe flew into despairBy the wringing of her milk white handsAnd the tearing of her hair.Saying "If Johnny he is drownedNo man on earth I'll take,But through lonesome groves and valleysI'll wander for his sake."Oh it's when he saw her loyaltyNo longer could he standHe flew into her arms saying"Betsy I'm the man.""Saying Betsy I'm the young manThe cause of all your painBut since we've met on Claudy BanksWe'll never part again." From Letras Mania