Fhear A Bhata [The Boatman]
(Click on title to play tune)
Forever haunting the highest hilltops
I scan the oceans, your sail to see
Will come tonight love?
Will come tomorrow?
Will ever come, love, to comfort me?
Chorus:
Fhear A Bhata (Air ah
Vata) Na horo eile (Nah ho-ro ay-lah)
Fhear A Bhata Na horo eile
Fhear A Bhata Na horo eile
Oh, fare thee well, love, where e're you be
They call you fickle, they call you false
one
And seek to change me, but all in vain
For you're my dream, throughout the dark
night
And every morning I watch the main
Chorus
There's not a hamlet, how well I know it,
Where you go wand'rin' or sit awhile
But all its old folk, you win with talkin'
And charm its maidens with song and smile.
Chorus
Do you remember the promise made me
The tartan plaide, the silken gown
The ring of gold with your head in portrait
The golden ring I'll never own.
Chorus
Traditional. Sequenced by Tom
Connole.
fheara.htm 2/12/07