The Bonny Swans [live]

Song The Bonny Swans [live]
Artist Loreena McKennitt
Album Live in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts

Lyrics

[00:26.50] A farmer there lived in the north country(a hey ho bonny o)
[00:33.50] And he had daughters one, two, three(The swans swim so bonny o)
[00:41.50] These daughters they walked by the river's brim(a hey ho bonny o)
[00:47.50] The eldest pushed the youngest in(The swans swim so bonny o)
[01:01.50] Oh sister, oh sister, pray lend me your hand(with a hey ho a bonny o)
[01:08.50] And I will give you house and land(the swans swim so bonny o)
[01:16.50] I'll give you neither hand nor glove(with a hey ho a bonny o)
[01:22.50] Unless you give me your own true love(the swans swim so bonny o)
[01:36.50] Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam(with a hey ho and a bonny o)
[01:43.50] Until she came to a miller's dam(the swans swim so bonny o)
[01:51.00] The miller's daughter, dressed in red(with a hey ho and a bonny o)
[01:57.50] She went for some water to make some bread(the swans swim so bonny o)
[02:11.50] Oh father, oh daddy, here swims a swan(with a hey ho and a bonny o)
[02:18.50] It's very like a gentle woman(the swans swim so bonny o)
[02:26.20] They placed her on the bank to dry(with a hey ho and a bonny o)
[02:32.80] There came a harper passing by(the swans swim so bonny o)
[03:09.00] He made harp pins of her fingers fair(with a hey ho and a bonny o)
[03:15.50] He made harp strings of her golden hair(the swans swim so bonny o)
[03:22.50] He made a harp of her breast bone(with a hey ho and a bonny o)
[03:29.50] And straight it began to play alone(the swans swim so bonny o)
[03:43.50] He brought it to her father's hall(with a hey ho and a bonny o)
[03:50.50] And there was the court, assembled all(the swans swim so bonny o)
[03:57.50] He laid the harp upon a stone(with a hey ho and a bonny o)
[04:05.00] And straight it began to play alone(the swans swim so bonny o)
[04:18.50] And there does sit my father the King(with a hey ho and a bonny o)
[04:25.50] And yonder sits my mother the Queen(the swans swim so bonny o)
[04:32.50] And there does sit my brother Hugh(with a hey ho and a bonny o)
[04:39.50] And by him William, sweet and true(the swans swim so bonny o)
[04:47.50] And there does sit my false sister, Anne(with a hey ho and a bonny o)
[04:53.50] Who drowned me for the sake of a man(the swans swim so bonny o)
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