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Subject: Bonny Portmore From: ptimmerman@ifias.ca Date: 08 Apr 97 - 06:54 PM Can anyone help me with the lyrics/chords of "Bonny Portmore", as sung by Loreena McKennit, Eileen McGann, and others? I need it for an "environmental singalong". I would appreciate any help. |
Subject: Lyr Add: Bonny Portmore^^^ From: Ralph Butts Date: 08 Apr 97 - 07:12 PM Bonny Portmore - Music and lyrics by Loreena McKennitt, "The visit" 1991
O Bonny Portmore I am sorry to see
O Bonny Portmore you shine where you stand
All the Birds in the forest they bitterly weep
O Bonny Portmore you shine where you stand |
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore From: Peter Timmerman Date: 11 Apr 97 - 03:35 PM Many thanks for the lyrics. You wouldn't know where I could get a transcript of the music or the chords for piano or guitar? Yours, Peter |
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore From: Becky Bernson Date: 12 Apr 97 - 06:14 PM Loreena McKennitt did not write Bonny Portmore. It's an Irish song, first introduced to Canada, I believe, by Saskatoon folk singer Patty Tutty, on her album - oh, darn I can't find it -- I think it's called "Who Liveth So Merry ?????" Prairie Druid Music. Anyway, here's the tune in degrees of the scale (L=low); Time: 3/4; chords shown w/ Roman Numerals: I V ii IV 1 6L / 5L 5L 5L6L1/2 - 2 3 /4 -3 2 1 / 6L - 1 6L Oh Bonny Port-more you shine where you stand and the I V IV V 5L 5 561 /2 3 21 / 6L -5L 4L / 5L- 23/ more I think on you, the more I think long If ii I ii IV 4 4 32 / 3- 3 3/4 3 2 6L/ 5L - 2 3 / I had you now, as I had you once be fore All the ii I IV V 4 4 32 /13 5 -- 3 2 / 1 6 5 / 5-- Lords of old England would not purchase Portmore
Have fun!! Becky Bernson |
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore From: Becky again Date: 12 Apr 97 - 06:19 PM DARN! All that work, and it didn't come out right! Thought I was onto a good system for entering tunes & chords, but I guess not. The three lines - chords, tune & lyrics didn't stay on top of each other. RATS! SORRY about that! Becky |
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore From: Becky - take three Date: 12 Apr 97 - 06:48 PM I'll try again - added returns after each line: here's the tune in degrees of the scale (L=low); Time: 3/4; chords shown w/ Roman Numerals: I V ii IV 1 6L / 5L 5L 5L6L1/2 - 2 3 /4 -3 2 1 / 6L - 1 6L Oh Bonny Port-more you shine where you stand and the I V IV V 5L 5 561 /2 3 21 / 6L -5L 4L / 5L- 23/ more I think on you, the more I think long If ii I ii IV 4 4 32 / 3- 3 3/4 3 2 6L/ 5L - 2 3 / I had you now, as I had you once be fore All the ii I IV V 4 4 32 /13 5 -- 3 2 / 1 6 5 / 5-- Lords of old England would not purchase Portmore Have fun!! Becky Bernson |
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore From: Becky - sigh... Date: 12 Apr 97 - 06:50 PM Still didn't work.. Any ideas?? |
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore From: belter Date: 12 Apr 97 - 08:54 PM you can add after each line. This stands for break in some computer code or other. |
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore From: Frank Phillips Date: 12 Apr 97 - 09:24 PM Paddy Tutty recorded 'Bonny Portmore' on her second album as well. It's called 'Who liveth so merry'. I just bought both from her 2 weeks ago so I assume she has copies left. You can write: Prairie Druid Music, 219-11th Street East, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0E5 Canada.
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Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore From: belter Date: 12 Apr 97 - 10:53 PM sorry about that unclear post. That is use < BR > without the spaces. I don't know how to enter it with out it being taken as a cammand. |
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore From: Date: 14 Apr 97 - 04:28 PM Dear Dawn Threaders, I really appreciate the multiple efforts, and the information about Paddy Tutty. Yours, Peter |
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore From: dick greenhaus Date: 15 Apr 97 - 11:07 PM For what it's worth, Sean O Boyle, in THe Irish Song Tradition, says that the tune and title appear in Bunting's Ancient Irish Music. He says that he obtained the words from a traditional singer in 1952. The "ornament tree, the Great Oak of Portmore, was blown down in 1761. |
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore From: cleod Date: 03 May 97 - 12:42 PM thanks for the help!!! |
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