The Bantry Girls' Lament

X: 1
T:The Bantry Girls' Lament
M:4/4
L:1/4
C:Traditional
S:Digital Tradition Folk Music Database
R:Song
D:The Clancy Brothers, Tunes & Tales (1988)
K:G
G/2A/2 | B2 B>A | B<d d>e | d>B B/2A/2 G | A3 G/2A/2 | B B B>A |
B d d>e | d>B A>G | G3 (3d/2e/2f/2 | g> f g>d | e d d g/d/ |
e d B/2A/2 G | A3 G/2A/2 | B>B B>A | B d  d>e | d2>B/2 A>G | G3 |]
W:
W:Who will plow the field now, and who will sow the corn.
W:Who will wash the sheep now, and keep them neatly shorn.
W:The stack that's in the haggard, un-touched it may re-main,
W:Since Johnny went a-thrashing all in the wars of Spain.
W:
W:Chorus:
W:Johnny, lovely Johnny, he's sailing o'er the main,
W:A-long with other patriots, to fight the King of Spain.
W:
W:And the girls from the bawn-oag in sorrow may re-tire.
W:The piper and his bellows, (may) go home and blow the fire.
W:At fairs and hurling matches, your likes we seldom see,
W:Till you come home a-gain to us, a-storeen oag mo cree.
W:
W:And a cruel fate will not permit our Johnny to return.
W:His heavy loss, we Bantry girls will never cease to mourn.
W:We re-sign ourselves to our sad lot, and die in grief and pain.
W:Johnny died for freedom's sake in the foreign lands of Spain.

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/mindspring.com/~thornton.rose/Bantry_Girls_Lament/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/troseandassociates.com/abc/BantryGirlsLament/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/troseandassociates.com/abc/Bantry_Girls_Lament/0000

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