Black is the colour of my true love's hair.
Her lips are like a rose so fair.
She's got the sweetest face and the gentlest hands.
I love the ground whereon she stands.

I love my love and well she knows.
I love the ground whereon she goes.
And how I wish the day would co

Blue mountain river, if only for a while,
Take me to the river, lay down by your side,
The world is full of madness and I find it hard to smile,
Take me through winter and wait for summertime.

Take me where you're going I 'll be right by your side.

Blue mountain river, co

"Oh rise up my darling and come with me
I want to go with you and leave this country
To leave my fathers dwelling, this house and the land
So away goes Jamie with his love in his arms

They go over hills and the mountains and glens
Traveling all through the night in the mist

Bonny, bonny was my seat in the red rosy yard
And bonny was my ship in the town of Ballynagard

Shade and shelter was for me till I began to fail
You all may guess now my distress lies near the Nightingale

Grief and woe that I must go to fight for England's King
I neither

One night as I lay slumbering in my silent bed alone
Some reckless thoughts came to my mind which caused me for to roam
To leave my native country and the wee girl I do adore
So I thought it fit to take a trip, strange lands for to explore

Now the night before I went away I was

Just where is ends
Getting ready to be strung, there is sweetness to

Every blow

Broken bridges, wish I could lie down
Freedom angels come and save me now
So I lost my fortune then found it in a glen
Trees and branches led me straight to him

Oh my love, freedom c

It being in the springtime and the small birds were singing,
Down by yon shady harbour I carelessly did stray,
The thrushes they were warbling,
The violets they were charming,
To view fond lovers talking, a while I did delay.

She said, my dear don't leave me for another sea

As I was a'walking one evening of late
Where fragrant fine flowers the field decorate,
I carelessly rambled where I did not know
By the fair crystal fountain that falls in Glencoe.

And on her who the prize on Mount Ider was won,
Then approched me a lassy as bright as the su

Oh draw near each young lover
Give ear to my story that bears my sad mournful tale
Come and join me in chorus and lend me your pity
Whilst I my misfortune bewail
The grief of my poor heart no tongue can disclose
My cheeks are now pale they once bloomed like the rose
And i

Everywhere you go
Everywhere you see
There's nothing much to say now
And days go by between
And if I had a sign

I wouldn't feel the need
Cause if I held you now
I might as well hold a dream

Everywhere you go
Everywhere you see
There's nothing much to s

I'm falling like a star, and I'm holding on for dear life
I'm about to reach the ground
I'm coming home to Earth
I've reached my town

And they said that you couldn't sit on a cloud, cause you'd fall right through
Well how is it then, that I managed to?
And how did I say

This is really not my home
Oh where are you my lovely Johnny?
I'm afraid and all alone
There is no peace for me
I'm sitting in the stranger's room
Playing at the stranger's table
Shining empty like the moon
There is no peace for me

But in the darkness struggle c

Every time you touch my face
Every time you touch my face
I feel your soul's amazing grace
Every time
Every time you touch my face

I'll try to love you tenderly
I'll try to love you tenderly
Loving you comes easily
I'll try to love
I try to love you tenderly

Green grows the laurel, soft falls the dew,
Sorry was I love when parting from you,
But at our next meeting I hope you'll prove true,
And we'll join the laurel and the violet so blue.

I once had a sweetheart but now I have none,
He's gone and he's left me to weep and to mou

Oh father, dear father,
you've done to me much wrong,
You've gone and got me married to a boy
who is too young.
For he is only 16 years and I am 21,
Oh my darling boy is young but he's growing.

Oh daughter, dear daughter,
it's you who have done wrong,
For you an

Kind friends and companions, together combine
And raise up your voices in chorus with mine
We will drink and be merry, all grief to refrain
For we may and might never all meet here again

Here's a health to the company and one to my lass
We will drink and be merry, all out o

Days, turning from red to green
It's hard to believe that spring
Is here so soon and I've been gone so long

Keep, sending your letters on
Memories of home are still
Haunting my days and I am losing my way

High tide, changing moods
Familiar faces I know
High ti

For too long now I've been a stranger here
To the hills above the Glenshane and your rocks and your rain
When the silent souls haunt the Priory walls
In the wind they sing "Come away, come away"

To the murmuring stream with the town below
In the babbling swell of the windin

I am a youth inclined to ramble,
To some foreign country I mean to steer,
I am loath to part my friends and comrades,
And my dear sweatheart, whom I loved dear.
But there's one of those I do most admire,
One her 'll think when I 'm far away,
For since fates decreed I am

I wish I was in heaven high,
For night and day I just wait and cry,
And from my arms he flew one night,
To where I cannot find.

I wish I had the wings to fly,
For in this world he left no sign,
But maybe someday he'll bring me back,
To where I cannot find.

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