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Bonny Portmore
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Does anyone know where I can find the lyrics of the song "Bonny Portmore" by Loreena McKennit?
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Bonny Portmore
Oh 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.
Oh 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 of Antrim came to float it away.
All the birds in the forest they bitterly weep
Saying, "Where will we shelter or where will we sleep?"
For the oak and the ash they are all cutten down
And the walls of Bonny Portmore are all down to the ground.
Oh 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.
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I found the lyrics but don't fully understand them. Would you enlighten me??
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It's actually a traditional Irish song, adapted by McKennitt. I think it talks of a beautiful city which was taken over and destroyed.
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