Andy Irvine - Bonny Woodhall

from the album 'Rainy Sundays, Windy Dreams'

[guitar solo]

Down by yon green bushes
near Calder's clear stream

Where me and my Annie so often have been

When the hours that flew past us,
right happy were we

It was little she thought that a solider I'd be.

[guitar solo]

But it's farewell to Annie and I must away

For the King he needs soldiers and I must obey

But if providence prove kind love until I return

I will wed with my Annie near Calder's clear burn.

[guitar solo]

On the fourteenth of August our regiment was lost

And a ball from the enemy our lines came across

O, it struck me in the temple
and the blood trickled down

I reeled and I staggered and I fell to the ground

[guitar solo]

Come here, says our captain,
come here with good speed

For I fear by this bullet young Dinsmore lies dead

Two men with a stretcher did quickly prepare

And they carried me away to a hospital there.

[guitar solo]

Cold water and brandy they poured out so free

They turned me all over my wounds for to see

But if I had my Annie to bind up my wounds

One kiss from her sweet lips
would soon deaden the stoun

[guitar solo]

And it's when I am weary and think on lang syne

When I was a miner and wrought in the mine

Oh the tears they do trickle and down they do fall

Like the roses that bloom around Bonny Woodhall.