Kellswater - Andy Irvine
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- Andy Irvine at Mighty Fine Guitars, Lafayette, CA, September 2012. A Vortex Production, filmed and edited by Jeff Peach.
Song lyrics graciously supplied by Patrick from 'AndyzFanz'.
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Kellswater
New Words & Music: Andy Irvine
Here's a health to you Bonny Kellswater
Where you get all the pleasures of life
Where you get all the fishing and fowling
And a bonny wee lass for your wife
O it's down where yon waters run muddy
I'm afraid they will never run clear
And it's when I begin for to study
My mind is on them that's not here
For it's this one and that one may court him
But if anyone gets him but me
It's early and late I will curse them
That parted lovely Willie from me
O a father he calls on his daughter
"Two choices I'll give unto thee:
Would you rather see Willie's ship a-sailing,
Or see him hung like a dog from yon tree?"
"O father, dear father, I love him;
I can no longer hide it from thee;
Through an acre of fire I would travel
Along with lovely Willie to be."
But it's woe to the heart that confines me
And keeps me from my heart's delight
Strong walls and cold irons they bind me
And a stone for my pillow at night
O yonder's a ship on the ocean
And she does not know which way to steer
From the east to the west she's a-blowing
She reminds me of the ways of my dear
O it's yonder my Willie will be coming
He said he'd be here in the spring
And down by yon green shades I'll meet him
And among yon wild roses we'll sing
For a gold ring he placed on my finger
Saying: "Love, bear this in your mind;
If ever I sail from old Ireland,
You'll mind I'll not leave you behind."
Farewell to you bonny Kellswater
Where you'll get all the pleasures of life
Where you'll get all the fishing and fowling
And a bonny wee lass for your wife.
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I love Andy Irvine, he's so funny and humble and talented.
Along with Christy America holds Sweet Ireland and visions of the countryside with Andy Irvine!
I have admired this man' music since the mid-1970s. Andy chooses great songs, sings them superbly and accompanies them creatively. The bouzouki backup here is incredible, beautifully tangential to the melody. I saw Andy a couple of times in Boston in the 1980s. He did not disappoint
+MrMusicguyma And he just keeps on ticking... Amazing Two musical brains I think...
Ditto!
Very good, lovely kellswater river
Absolutely beautiful, just a knockout performance. Thank you so much for uploading
best song ever! trying to learn this on octave mandolin from this video
So loved you singing this last night in belfast. Did you not stay for a chat with us after the gig! Come back soon!
He has really aged a lot since I saw him. So have I. But he is so great.
I saw him in person in l985 in Norfolk, Va, when he was playing with Patrick Street.
+Buck Lilli His playing is just lovely, such a wonderful performer...
I saw him in Dublin in the 1960s...we were all much younger...we were the future then!
Darwin Australia
Great left hand...
nice one
No doubt, and his story telling and history of the song is great is great to have for the legacy.
Well, that's one way of looking at it, I guess. It misses the fact, though, that those good bold men did not stand to be fettered by convention or to be cowed by respect for thei "betters", who gave them the boot. Kicking them out was, in one way, a 'HAWNKIN' mistake!. In another, though, it was true serendipity. Lady Liberty saw their value and gave them the leg up that they deserved! They paid Her back, right and proper and, when the time came, forgave all and saved Englands' ass, THREE TIMES IN ONE CENTURY!. We will, in all likelihood, need to do so again. Londonistan, anyone?
Are you on drugs???????