Blackwaterside Songtext
von Sandy Denny

On the evening of our high doth day
Down the Boyne, black water′s eye
'Twas a gazing all around me
That the Irish lad I spied

All through the first part of the night
We did lie in sport and play
When this young man arose and gathered his clothes
Saying, "Fare thee well to-day"


"That′s not the promise that you gave to me
When first you lay on my breast
Oh, you could make me believe with your lying tongue
That the sun rose in the west"

"Go home, go home to your father's garden
Go home and reap your fill
And think upon your own misfortune
Which you brought with your wanton will"

"Oh, there's not a girl in this whole town
As easily led as I
And when the sky, it does fall and the seas, they run dry
Why, it′s then you′ll marry I"