Banks Of The Bann Lyrics - Singles - Silly Wizard

When first to this country as a stranger I came 

I placed my affection on a comely young dame 

She being warm and tender, her waist small and slender 

Kind Nature had formed her for my overthrow 

On the banks of Bann water, 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 wont 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 brown girl 

For there's no other love in this world I adore 

And now that I've found her I'm contented forever 

I'll put rings on her fingers and gold in her hair 

And we'll live on the banks of the lovely Bann river 

And in all sorts of splendour I will style her my dear. 

One of several songs with this name.