Bonny Portmore

Artist: Loreena McKennitt
Title: Bonny Portmore
Album: The Visit
Submitted By: horse_krazy
Submit Date: 2003-05-29
Requests: 36

O Bonny Portmore I am sorry to see
Such a woeful destruction of your ornament tree
For it stood on your shore for many's the long day
Till the long boats from Antrim came to float it away.

O Bonny Portmore you shine where you standAnd the more
Ithink on you the more I think long
If I had you now as I had once before
All the Lords in Old England would not purchase Portmore.

All the Birds in the forest they bitterly weep
Saying "where shall we shelter or where shall we sleep?
"For the Oak and the Ash they all cutten downAnd the walls
of Bonny Portmore are all down to the ground.

O Bonny Portmore you shine where you stand
And the more I think on you the more I think long
If I had you now as I had once before
All the Lords in Old England would not purchase Portmore.