Chords for Kellswater - Andy Irvine

[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ This one is a song from County Antrim.
My mother came from County Antrim and I'm _ much enamored of a lot of the songs that come from there.
She never heard me sing and she never knew a folk song in her life.
My mother was a musical comedy actress and she used to sing songs _ _ like_
No, I can't do it.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] I usually do [Eb] an impression of my mother [Ab] at this point.
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_ _ _ _ But _ anyway, _ [Bbm] this is a song which [Eb] I dedicate to her memory.
[Ab] _ [Bb] It's called Kel's Water and I think the basis of the song is [N] that _ in those days,
if you were the daughter of a fairly well-off family and you fell in love with a boy below your [Bb] station, _ _ _ quite likely your father would buy him a one-way ticket to America. _
So, America was obviously riddled with kind of _ heartbroken Antrim men trying to earn their passage back to their fatherland. _ _ _ _
See, see.
You were probably their _ grandchildren. _ _ _ _ _
So anyway, this is Kel's Water.
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Here's a [Bb] help to you, [Gb] Bonnie, [Eb] _ [Bb] Kel's Water.
[Bbm] _ _ [Bb] Where you get all the pleasures of life. _
[Bbm] Where you get [Eb] all [Gb] the fishing [Ab] and [Bb] flouting.
_ Come to Bonnie, [Fm]
we'll ask for [Bb] your wine.
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Oh, [Bbm] it's down where young [Bb] water's from [Gb] a [Eb] [Db] deep.
[Bbm] _ I'm afraid they [Bb] will never run [F] clear. _
[Bb] And [Gb] it's when [Ab] I begin [Eb] for [Ab] to [Bb] study.
_ My mind is [Fm] on them that's [Bb] not here. _ _
For there's this one and that one, [Bbm] a court him.
[Ebm] _ _ But [Bb] if anyone gets [Ebm] him but me,
[Bb] _ It's early [Bbm] and late, I [Ab] will curse [Eb] them.
_ [Bb] That parted lovely Willie [Gb] from me.
[Bb] Oh, father, [Eb] he calls on his [Ebm] daughter.
_ _ [Bbm] True choices I'll give [Gb] unto thee.
[Bb] Would you rather see Will as a ship a [Ab]
-sailing
[Eb] _ [Bb] Or see him hung like a dog from [Gb] young tree?
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Oh, [Bb] father, [Gb] dear father, [Eb] [Bb] I love him.
[Bbm] _ _ [Bb] I can no longer hold it from _ thee. _
Through an acre of [Gb] [Eb] fire I [Abm] will travel
[Bb] _ _ A lot with [Fm]
lovely Willie [Bb] to be. _ _
Oh, it's heart was [Bbm] the heart that [Ebm] confined [Bbm] her.
_ [C] And took [Bbm] from her her [Eb] heart's delight.
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[F] [Gb] May the [F] chains of old [Db] Ireland [Ab] bind around [Bb] them
And softly [Fm] bear pillows [Bb] at night. _ _ _
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_ Oh, young bird, sash [Gb] upon [Fm] the [Gb] ocean.
[Bbm] _ _ And she does not [Fm] know which way [Gb] to steer. _ _
_ [Bbm] From the east to [Fm] the west [C] she's a [Ab]-blowing.
_ [Bb] She reminds [Fm] me on the [Gb] charms of my dear. _
[Fm] Oh, young bird, [Bbm] mighty Willie [Eb] will be coming.
_ [Ebm] _ [Db] He said he'd [F] be [Bb] here in [Gb] the spring. _
[Bbm] And it's down by [Fm] yon green [C] shades [Ab] I'll meet [Bb] him.
[Bbm] And among [Fm] yon green bushes [Gb] we'll sing.
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For a [Bb] gold ring [Ebm] he placed on my [Bb] finger.
[Bbm] _ _ _ Saying, love, bear this in [Bb] your mind. _ _
If ever I [Gb] [Eb] sail from [Ab] old Ireland
[Bb] _ [F] _ [Eb] You'll mind I'll [Fm] not leave you [Gb] behind.
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[Ab] _ [Bbm] Farewell to you, Bonnie, Cal's water.
_ _ Where you [Fm] get [Eb] all the [Bb] pleasures [F] of life. _ _
[Gb] Where you get [Eb] [Bbm] all the fishing [Eb]
[Ab] and [Bb] ploughing.
_ [Eb] And, Bonnie, [Ab]
we last for your [Bb] wife. _ _ _
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