verse 1:
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O Bonnie Portmore, I am sorry to have seen
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Such woeful destruction of your ornament tree
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For it stood on your shore for many's the long day
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Till the long boats from Antrim came to float it away
verse 2:
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O Bonnie Portmore, you shine where you stand
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And the more I think on you, the more I think long
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If I had you now, as I had once before
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All the lords in old England would not purchase Portmore
verse 3:
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All the birds in the forest, they do bitterly weep
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Sighing, "Where shall we shelter, o where shall we sleep?"
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For the oak and the ash, they are all cut down
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And the walls of Bonnie Portmore they are down to the ground
verse 4:
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O Bonnie Portmore, you shine where you stand
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And the more I think on you, the more I think long
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If I had you now, as I had once before
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All the lords in old England would not purchase Portmore.