Loreena Mckennit Bonny Portmore Lyrics

Bonny Portmore Lyrics

O 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. 

 

 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 

 Till the long boats from Antrim came to float it away. 

 

 O 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. 

 

 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. 

 

 O 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 of Old England would not purchase Portmore.