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The Bonny Light Horseman​/​The Song of the Passion

from My Mind From Love Being Free by Lindsay Straw

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A common enough song with many variations, I first learned “The Bonny Light Horseman” from John Faulkner & Dolores Keane’s Broken Hearted I’ll Wander, and then was later influenced by Rita Gallagher’s rendition on her album May Morning Dew. Rita’s version has an additional verse, which I’ve decided to leave out due to the length. “The Song of the Passion” is a lovely waltz that my fiddle, concertina, and accordion­-playing friend Dan Accardi shared when we arranged it for band performances with The Ivy Leaf.

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When Bony commanded his troops for to stand,
He leveled his cannon all over the land.
He leveled his cannon the whole victory for to gain,
And he slew my light horseman returning from Spain.

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Broken hearted I will wander, broken hearted I will remain,
For my bonny light horseman in the war he was slain.

Now the dove, she laments for her mate as she flies.
“Oh, where tell me where is my true love?” she cries.
And where in this wide world is there one that can compare
With my bonny light horseman, who was slain in the war?

CHORUS

If I was a small bird and had wings to fly,
I’d fly o’er the salt seas where my true love does lie.
And with my fond wings I’d beat over his grave,
And I’d kiss the cold lips that lie dead in the clay.

CHORUS

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from My Mind From Love Being Free, released May 1, 2015

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Lindsay Straw Boston, Massachusetts

Traditional folk singer, guitarist & bouzouki player.

"Hearken(s) back to more innocent times, of Greenwich Village and pure folk." - The Living Tradition

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