Bonnie Portmore Lyrics

The song Bonnie Portmore is performed by Loreena McKennitt in the album named Live in Paris and Toronto in the year 2006 .



O bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand
And the more I think on you the more I think long
If I had you now as I had once before
All the lords in Old England would not purchase Portmore.

O bonny Portmore, I am sorry to see
Such a woeful destruction of your ornament tree
For it stood on your shore for many's the long day
Till the long boats from Antrim came to float it away.

O bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand
And the more I think on you the more I think long
If I had you now as I had once before
All the Lords in Old England would not purchase Portmore.

All the birds in the forest they bitterly weep
Saying, "Where will we shelter or where will we sleep?"
For the Oak and the Ash, they are all cutten down
And the walls of bonny Portmore are all down to the ground.

O bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand
And the more I think on you the more I think long
If I had you now as I had once before
All the Lords of Old England would not purchase Portmore.




Loreena McKennitt - Live in Paris and Toronto

Dec 2006

  1. Prologue
  2. The Mummers' Dance
  3. Skellig
  4. Marco Polo
  5. The Highwayman
  6. La Serenissima
  7. Night Ride Across The Caucasus
  8. Dante's Prayer
  9. The Mystic's Dream
  10. Santiago
  11. Bonnie Portmore
  12. Between The Shadows
  13. The Lady Shallott
  14. The Bonnie Swans
  15. The Old Ways
  16. All Souls Night
  17. Cymbeline
  18. Santiago
  19. Bonny Portmore
  20. Between the Shadows
  21. Lady of Shalott
  22. Bonny Swans
  23. Old Ways
  24. All Souls Night
  25. Cymbeline


Bonnie Portmore