CELTIC MUSIC #5: BONNY PORTMORE
CELTIC MUSIC #5: BONNY PORTMORE, Different versions of the same tune Diverse versioni della stessa melodia: BONNY PORTMORE excerpts from: Loreena McKennitt: Bonny Portmore album Live in Paris and Toronto 1999 Laura Creamer: Bonny Portmore from: Highlander: the series soundtrack 1995 Michael Maxwell: Bonny Portmore album Emerald forest: a celtic sanctuary 1999 Gregorian: Bonny Portmore album Masters Of Chant Chapter 2 2004 Angelo Branduardi: Donna di luce different lyrics* album: Altro ed altrove 2003 the Rogues of Scotland: Bonny Portmore album the Rogues V O 2001 Loreena McKennitt: Bonny Portmore album Nights from the Alhambra 2007 Loreena McKennitt: Bonny Portmore album the Visit 1991 loreena live in paris and toronto o bonny portmore you shine where you stand and the more I think on you the more I think long if I had you now as I had once before all the lords of old england would not purchase portmore laura creamer o bonny portmore I am sorry to see such a woeful destruction of your ornament tree for it stood on your shore for manys the long day till the long boats from antrim came to float it away gregorian o bonny portmore you shine where you stand and the more I think of you the more I think long if I have you now as I have once before all the lords of old england would not purchase portmore loreena nights from the alhambra o bonny portmore you shine where you stand and the more I think on you the more I think long if I had you now as I had once before all the lords of old england would not purchase portmore loreena the visit all the birds in the forest they bitterly weep saying where shall we shelter? where shall we sleep? for the oak and the ash they are all cutten down and the walls of bonny portmore are all down to the ground from the albums booklet the Visit Loreena McKeniit : The destruction of old growth forests has become an important conservation issue in recent years but it is not a new phenomenon Over the centuries many of Irelands old oak forests were leveled for military and shipbuilding purposes Only recently has there been an effort to reestablish these great hardwoods The Great Oak of Portmore stood on the property of Portmore Castle on the shore of Lough Beg L M *from the albums booklet Altro ed Altrove parole damore dei popoli lontani Angelo Branduardi : Antica lirica irlandese Sec IX II dio Midir invita la donna che in passato fu il suo amore ed ora e la moglie del re di Tara a seguirlo nel suo magico regno al di là dellOceano la Terra della Giovinezza dove il vino scorre a fiumi e nessuno muore prima di essere ormai vecchio Ancient Irish song Sec IX The god Midir invites the woman that in the past was his love and now is the wife of the king of Tara to follow him in his magical kingdom outside the Ocean The Land of the Youth where the vine flows like a river and no one die before being old Antique chant irlandais Sec IX Le dieu Midir invite la femme qui fut par le passé son amour et qui maintenant est lépouse du roi de Tara à le suivre dans son royaume magique au delà de lOcéan la Terre de la Jeunesse où le fin coule à flots et personne ne meurt avant que de nêtre vieux Antike irische Lyrik IX Jahrhundert Der Gott Midir lädt die Frau ein die früher seine Geliebte war und jetzt die Ehefrau des Königs von Tara ist ihm zu folgen in sein magisches Reich jenseits des Ozeans Das Land der Jugend wo der Wein in Flüssen fliesst und niemand stirbt bevor er alt ist