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Bonny Portmore

from Hand Made Heart by Broadoak

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An Irish estate which was broken up, the house quarried for building materials, the woods cut down, the people gone. Time and money wait for no man.

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.

All the birds in the forest they bitterly weep
Saying, "Where shall we shelter or where shall 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

credits

from Hand Made Heart, released May 28, 2022
Trad. arr. Broadoak

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Broadoak Wales, UK

Chris Kay (voice, keyboard, whistle)
Peter Kay (voice, guitars, knob twiddling)
Wendy Lewis (violin, voice, knitting)

We live in West Wales, and are very glad that we do.

Our website is www.broadoakfolk.com
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