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[Verse 1]
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Here's a health to you, bonny Kellswater
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Where you get all the pleasures of life
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Where you get all the fishing and fowling
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And a bonny wee lass for your wife

[Verse 2]
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Oh, it's down where yon waters run muddy
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I'm afraid they will never run clear
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And it's when I begin for to study
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My mind is on him that's not here

[Verse 3]
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And it's this one and that one may court him
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But if anyone gets him but me
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It's early and late I will curse them
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The parting lovely Willie from me

[Verse 4]
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Oh, a father, he calls on his daughter
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"Two choices I'll give unto thee
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Would you rather see Willie's ship a-sailing
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Or see him hung like a dog on yonder tree?"

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[Verse 5]
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"Oh father, dear father, I love him
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I can no longer hide it from thee
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Through an acre of fire I would travel
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Along with lovely Willie, to be"

[Verse 6]
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Oh, hard was the heartbreak I'm finding
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She took from her full heart's delight
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May the chains of old Ireland come find them
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And soften their pillows at night

[Verse 7]
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Oh, yonder there's a ship on the ocean
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And she does not know which way to steer
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From the east and the west she's a-blowing
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She reminds me of the charms of my dear

[Verse 8]
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Oh, it's yonder my Willie will be coming
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He said he'd be here in the spring
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And it's down by yon green shades I'll meet him
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And among wild roses we'll sing

[Verse 9]
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For a gold ring he placed on my finger
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Saying, "Love, bear this in your mind
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If ever I sail from old Ireland
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You'll mind, I'll not leave you behind"

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[Verse 10]
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Farewell to you, bonny Kellswater
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Where you get all the pleasures of life
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Where you get all the fishing and fowling
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And a bonny wee lass for your wife

[Outro]
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