Name: The Banks Of The Bann
Duration: P00H03M49S
Description: Like so many, we learned this version of this beautiful song from the Voice Squad, so we’d like to dedicate this recording to the memory of Phil Callery who passed away on 31st May 2022 as this album went to press.

The Banks Of The Bann

from What Holds The World Together by The Wilderness Yet

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Like so many, we learned this version of this beautiful song from the Voice Squad, so we’d like to dedicate this recording to the memory of Phil Callery who passed away on 31st May 2022 as this album went to press.

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When first to this country as a stranger I came
I placed my affection on a maid of fine name
She being warm and tender, her waist small and slender
Kind Nature had formed her for my overthrow

On the banks of Bann, where I first beheld her
She appeared like fair Juno or a Grecian queen
Her eyes shone like diamonds, her hair softly twining
Her cheeks were like roses, or like blood drops in snow

It was her cruel parents that first caused our variance
All because I was poor and of a low degree
But I'll do my endeavour to earn my love's favour
Although she is come of a rich family

My name is Delaney, its a name that won't shame me
And if I had saved money I'd have plenty in store
But drinking and courting, night rambling and sporting
Were the cause of my ruin and absence from home

Had I all the money that's in the West Indies
Or had I the gold of the African shore
I would spend it on pearls, and on you my fair girl
For there's no other love in this world I adore

And since I have gained her I'm contented for life
I'll put rings on her fingers and make her my wife
We'll live on the banks of the lovely Bann river
And in all sorts of splendour I will style her my dear.

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from What Holds The World Together, released July 21, 2022
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The Wilderness Yet combines the acclaimed talents of folksinger Rosie Hodgson, traditional fiddler Rowan Piggott, and guitarist-flautist Philippe Barnes. Independently, they have earned audiences’ esteem as consummate musicians; together, they weave a tapestry of traditional & self-penned songs with a charm and familarity that is usually only found in seasoned line-ups. ... more

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