Bonny Portmore Chords

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Difficulty:	absolute beginner
Tuning:	E A D G B E
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[Verse]
  G         Am         C         Am
O Bonny Portmore, I am sorry to see
       G         Am               C         G
Such a woeful destruction of your ornament tree
       Am            Em         C              Am
For it stood on your shore for many's the long day
         Am              G              C        D
Till the long boats from Antrim came to float it away
 
[Chorus]
  G         Am        C                Am
O Bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand
        G            Am          C            G
And the more I think on you, the more I think long
   Am        Em        C          Am
If I had you now, as I had once before
        Am           G                 C           D
All the Lords in Old England would not purchase Portmore
 
[Verse]
        G            Am          C         G
All the birds in the forest they bitterly weep
         G              Am             C         G
Saying, "Where shall we shelter, where shall we sleep?"
        Am           Em           C          Am
For the oak and the ash, they are all cutten down
        Am              G                C            D
And the walls of Bonny Portmore are all down to the ground
 
[Chorus]
  G         Am        C               Am
O Bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand
        G            Am          C            G
And the more I think on you, the more I think long
   Am         Em        C          Am
If I had you now, as I had once before
         Am          G                  C            D
All the Lords of Old England would not purchase Portmore
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Bonny Portmore – Loreena McKennitt

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Thanks for this tab and the videos along with it. I been a bit obsessed with this song for a long time. Now I just wish I could find a harmonica player doing this. Something about wanting to mix Delta Blues with Celtic Blues.

Jeez. I love this song. My hearts melting when im singing it. I can feel the tragedy in its expression. The loss of our beloved natural home, the demise of the wild woods, that got cut down to make place for early industrialism..