Lyrics

Here’s a health unto you bonny Kells Waters
For it’s there you’ll find the pleasures of life
And it’s there you’ll find fishing and fowling
And a bonny wee girl for your wife.

By hills and ye glens and ye valleys
Grows as soft as the linen so fine
And the flowers are all dripping with honey
There is Martha the true love of mine.

Lovely Martha you’re the first girl I courted
You’re the one put my heart in a snare
And if ever I should lose you to another
Then I’ll leave my Kells water so fair.

For this one and that one may court her
But no other can take her from me
For I love her as I love my Kells Waters
Like the primrose is loved by the field bee.

Here’s a health unto you bonny Kells Waters
For it’s there you’ll find the pleasures of life
And it’s there you’ll find the fishing and the fowling
And a bonny wee girl for your wife
And a bonny wee girl for your wife.