Bonny Kellswater

Traditional

Chorus:
     Here's a health unto you bonny Kellswater,
     For it's there you'll find the pleasures of life,
     And it's there you find the fishin' and the fowlin',
     And a bonny wee lass for a wife.

On the hills and the glens and low valleys,
Grows the softest of linen so fine,
And the flowers are all droopin' with honey,
There lives Martha, a true love of mine.

Lovely Martha, you're the first girl I courted,
You're the one put my heart in a snare,
And if ever I should lose you to another,
I will leave my Kellswater so fair.

Chorus:

For this one and that one may court her,
But no other can take her from me,
For I love her as I love my Kellswater,
As the primrose is loved by the bee.

Some say the Kellswater runs muddy,
But I know that it always runs clear.
As I sit here alone in my study,
I dream of Martha and them that's not here.


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