Key: Ab major•
Verse 1
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Ballinderry,
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Pretty to be in Aucholee*
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bonny Ram's Island
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A- sitting forever beneath a tree.
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Eb
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Ochone, ochone
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Ochone, ochone.
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Verse 2
For often I sailed to bonny
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Ram's Island,
Arm in arm with Phelim,
my demon.**
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He would whistle and I would sing,
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island ring.
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Ochone, ochone
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Eb
Ochone, ochone.
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Verse 3
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"from bonny Ram's Is land
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Out and across the deep blue sea,
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Mary,
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Open your arms at last to me."
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Ochone, ochone
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Ochone, ochone.
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Verse 4
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'Twas pretty to be in Ballinderry
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But now it's as sad as sad can be,
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Em
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For the ship that sailed with Phelim,
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Is sunk forever be
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neath the sea.
Ochone, ochone
Ochone, ochone.
Verse 5
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* No one can seem to agree on the name of
this place. My sources
give "Aucholee," "Aghalee," and "Ahalee."
** Or perhaps "Phelim,
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my diamond." Another text reads simply
"Phelim, my love."
Verse 6
by John Langstaff on "Let's Make
"The Language of the Heart" (with an admis
sion that they didn't
know the correct words).
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