Kellswater

(version 2 - a.k.a. "Bonnie Kellswater")

Words & Music:

Traditional Irish or Scottish

 

If you have a variation on these chords, please send them to me  and I shall post 'em.  This lyric variation is commonly sung by heterosexual men.

 

         G              Bm          Em

Here's a health to you, bonnie Kellswater.

         G                                  C

For it's there you'll find the pleasures of life.

         G                   Bm          Em

And it's there you'll find a fishing and farming,

C     G          D6            G

And a bonnie wee girl for your wife.

 

On the hills and the glens and the valleys

Grows the softest of women so fine;

And the flowers are all dripping with honey,

There lives Martha, a true love of mine.

 

Bonnie Martha, you're the first girl I courted.

You're the one put my heart in a snare.

And if ever I should lose you to another

I will leave my Kellswater so fair.

 

For this one and that one may court her,

But no other can take her from me.

For I love her as I love my Kellswater;

Like the primrose is loved by the bee.

 

Here's a health to you, bonnie Kellswater.

For its there you'll find the pleasures of life.

And its there you'll find a fishing and farming,

And a bonnie wee girl for your wife.