Текст песни: Banks of the Bann + перевод

When first to this country a stranger I came

I placed my affection in a girl that was young

She being fair and tender, her waist small and slender

'Twas nature that formed her for my overthrow.

On the banks of the Bann, it was there I first met her

She appeared like an angel or Egypt’s fair queen

Her eyes were like diamonds or stars brightly shining

She’s one of the fairest in the world that I’ve seen

Oh it was her cruel parents that first caused a variance

Because she is rich and above my degree

But I do endeavor to gain my love’s favor

Although she is come of a high family

oh, me name it is Delaney, it’s a name that don’t shame me

And if I’d saved money I’d never have roamed

But drinking and sporting, night rambling and courting

Are the cause of all my ruin and me absence from home

But had I the wealth that is in the Indies

I’d put rings on her fingers and gold in her ears

And there on the banks of the lovely Bann River

In all kinds of splendor I’d live with my love.

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