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Thread #34687   Message #477469
Posted By: Lin in Kansas
06-Jun-01 - 09:15 AM
Thread Name: Discussion: Blackwaterside
Subject: Lyr Add: BLACKWATER SIDE (Clancy Brothers)
John In Remote Kansas (JIRK) on Lin's cookie

Obviously a different song, but the Clancy Bros "The Irish Songbook" Oak Publs gives

Blackwater Side
"This is a conversation between two lovers overheard
one morning on the bank of the River Blackwater
in County Cork

One morning fair
As I chanced the air
Down by black water side
'Twas in gazing all around me
That an Irish girl I spied

All in the fore part
Of the night
They rolled in sport and play
Then this young man arose
and he put on his clothes,
Saying Far - el - dy well to-day.

That's not the promise you made to me
When you lay upon my breast;
You could make me believe with your lying tongue
That the sun rose in the west.

Go home, go home to your father's garden,
Go home and cry your fill;
And think of the sad misfortune
I brought on with my wanton will

There's not a flower in this whole world
As easily led as I;
And when fishes can fly and seas do run dry,
It is then that you'll marry I


Must confess I have a little trouble making sense of the lyric, but then it is a Clancy Bro.

Pardon the kink in the string.

John