If I Were A Blackbird-Josef Locke & Orchestra

[ti:If I Were A Blackbird] [ar:Josef Locke & Orchestra] [al:Ireland Must Be Heaven] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]If I Were A Blackbird - Josef Locke & Orchestra [00:06.69]I am a young madon my story is sad [00:12.55]For once I was carefree and a brave sailor lad [00:17.57] [00:18.24]I courted a lassie by night and by day [00:24.10]But now she has left me [00:27.01]And sailed far away [00:30.74]If I was a blackbird could whistle and sing [00:36.78]And I'd follow the vessel my true love sails in [00:42.05] [00:42.69]And in the top rigging' I would there build my nest [00:48.14]And I'd flutter my hair on his lilly white breast [00:55.28] [01:00.91]You promise to take me to Donnybrook Fair [01:06.54]To buy me red ribbons to tie up my hair [01:11.15] [01:11.95]And I knowed some day you come bake at the time [01:17.07] [01:17.76]Then surely you make me own lave bright [01:23.14] [01:24.29]If I was a blackbird could whistle and sing [01:29.88]And I'd follow the vessel my true love sails in [01:35.42]And in the top rigging I would there build my nest [01:41.30]And I'd flutter my hair on his lily white breast [01:47.05] [01:53.82]His parents they slight me and will not agree [02:00.01]That me and my sailor boy married should be [02:05.42] [02:06.12]But let them deride me and do what they will [02:11.79] [02:12.34]While there's breath in my body he's the one I love still [02:19.36] [02:20.42]If I was a blackbird I'd whistle and sing [02:26.30] [02:26.88]And I'd follow the ship that my true love sails in [02:33.24] [02:34.30]And on the top riggings I'd there build my nest [02:42.11] [02:42.75]And I'd pillow my head on his lily white breast