Gregorian Bonny Portmore Lyrics

Bonny Portmore Lyrics

Bonny Portmore



O Bonny Portmore you shine where you stand

And the more I think of you, 

the more I think long

If I have you now as I have once before

All the Lords of Old England 

would not purchase Portmore.



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

'Til the long boats from Antrim 

came to float it away.



O Bonny Portmore you shine where you stand

And the more I think of you 

the more I think long

If I had you now as I had once before

All the Lords of Old England 

would not purchase Portmore.



All the birds in the forest they bitterly weep

Saying "where shall we shelter 

and where shall we sleep?"

For the Oak and the Ash 

they are all cutten down

And the walls of Bonny Portmore 

are down to the ground.



O Bonny Portmore you shine where you stand

And the more I think of you 

the more I think long

If I had you now as I had once before

All the Lords of Old England 

would not purchase Portmore.