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Loreena McKennitt - The Bonny Swans

Music by Loreena McKennitt

Lyrics arr. and adapted by Loreena McKennitt

A farmer there lived in the north country

a hey ho bonny o

And he had daughters one, two, three

The swans swim so bonny o

These daughters they walked by the river's brim

The eldest pushed the youngest in

Oh sister, oh sister, pray lend me your hand

with a hey ho a bonny o

And I will give you house and land

the swans swim so bonny o

I'll give you neither hand nor glove

Unless you give me your own true love

Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam

with a hey ho and a bonny o

Until she came to a miller's dam

The miller's daughter, dressed in red

She went for some water to make some bread

Oh father, oh daddy, here swims a swan

It's very like a gentle woman

They placed her on the bank to dry

There came a harper passing by

He made harp pins of her fingers fair

He made harp strings of her golden hair

He made a harp of her breast bone

And straight it began to play alone

He brought it to her father's hall

And there was the court, assembled all

He laid the harp upon a stone

And there does sit my father the King

And yonder sits my mother the Queen

And there does sit my brother Hugh

And by him William, sweet and true

And there does sit my false sister, Anne

Who drowned me for the sake of a man

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