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GUEST,Pukeko Origins: Killinchy song (5) Origins: Killinchy song 10 May 06


I came across a song (ex BBC radio) recently; just wondering if anyone can tell me about it, and of any corrections to the words I've attempted to transcribe - Cheers!

One evening fair to take the air a ramble I did take
Down by a crystal fountain called Carrick Manon Lake
Down by yon crystal fountain an image I did view
For nature never did design an image just like you

With courage bold and taunted I boldly then set forth
Saying my delightful charmer you venus of the North
Give me my way or else I'll stray my one and only joy
And sure it would be a pity for to kill a harmless boy

With flashing eye and marris eyes she coldly said to me
Young man depart for in my heart no place is stacked for thee
And to my father pleading no answer would she make
But turned away and laughed me by, Carrick Manon Lake

Killinchy is my dwelling place, where first my breath I drew
Drumray it is my parents place, a thousand times adieu
All for your sake I'll passage take across the stormy sea
A pilgrim there to durumdare in North Americay

Now all young men take warning and shun Killinchy fair
Likewise sweet Carrick Manon for that false one she lives there
As the sun is low descending o'er yonder hill so clear
The shadow of her dwelling in, the little does appear


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