When first to this country as a stranger I came
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I placed my affection on a comely young dame
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She being warm and tender, her waist small and slender
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Kind Nature had formed her for my overthrow
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On the banks of Bann water, where I first beheld her
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She appeared like fair Juno or a Grecian queen
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Her eyes shone like diamonds, her hair softly twining
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Her cheeks were like roses, or like blood drops in snow
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It was her cruel parents that first caused our variance
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All because I was poor and of a low degree
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But I'll do my endeavour to earn my love's favour
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Although she is come of a rich family
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My name is Delaney, its a name that wont shame me
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And if I had saved money I'd have plenty in store
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But drinking and courting, night rambling and sporting
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Were the cause of my ruin and absence from home
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Had I all the money that's in the West Indies
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Or had I the gold of the African shore
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I would spend it on pearls, and on you my brown girl
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For there's no other love in this world I adore
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And now that I've found her I'm contented forever
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I'll put rings on her fingers and gold in her hair
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And we'll live on the banks of the lovely Bann river
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And in all sorts of splendour I will style her my dear.
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One of several songs with this name.
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Banks Of The Bann
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| Silly Wizard |
