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Lyr/Chords Req: Bonny Portmore

08 Apr 97 - 06:54 PM (#4016)
Subject: Bonny Portmore
From: ptimmerman@ifias.ca

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.

08 Apr 97 - 07:12 PM (#4017)
Subject: Lyr Add: Bonny Portmore^^^
From: Ralph Butts

Bonny Portmore - Music and lyrics by Loreena McKennitt, "The visit" 1991

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 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.

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 down
And 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.

11 Apr 97 - 03:35 PM (#4471)
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore
From: Peter Timmerman

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

12 Apr 97 - 06:14 PM (#4526)
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore
From: Becky Bernson

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

12 Apr 97 - 06:19 PM (#4527)
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore
From: Becky again

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

12 Apr 97 - 06:48 PM (#4529)
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore
From: Becky - take three

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

12 Apr 97 - 06:50 PM (#4530)
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore
From: Becky - sigh...

Still didn't work.. Any ideas??

12 Apr 97 - 08:54 PM (#4534)
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore
From: belter

you can add
after each line.
This stands for break in some computer code or other.

12 Apr 97 - 09:24 PM (#4538)
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore
From: Frank Phillips

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.

12 Apr 97 - 10:53 PM (#4542)
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore
From: belter

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.

14 Apr 97 - 04:28 PM (#4621)
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore
From:

Dear Dawn Threaders, I really appreciate the multiple efforts, and the information about Paddy Tutty. Yours, Peter

15 Apr 97 - 11:07 PM (#4658)
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore
From: dick greenhaus

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.

03 May 97 - 12:42 PM (#4832)
Subject: RE: Bonny Portmore
From: cleod

thanks for the help!!!