Kellswater - Loreena McKennitt

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