If I Were a Blackbird-Carmel Quinn

[ti:If I Were a Blackbird] [ar:Carmel Quinn] [al:Arthur Godfrey Presents Carmel Quinn] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]If I Were a Blackbird - Carmel Quinn [00:07.49]I am a young madon my story is sad [00:13.19] [00:13.88]For once i was courted by a brave sailor lad [00:19.85] [00:20.43]He courted me deary by night and by day [00:25.86] [00:26.42]But now he has left me and he's gone far away [00:33.10] [00:33.91]So if i was a blackbird i'd whistle and sing [00:39.62]And i'd follow the ship where my true love sails in [00:44.58] [00:45.23]And on the top riggings i'd there build my nest [00:50.73]And i'd pillow my head on his lily white breast [00:56.34] [00:58.84]He promised to take me to donnybrook fair [01:04.25] [01:05.07]And buy me red ribbons to tie in my hair [01:10.98] [01:11.68]And i knowed someday you come back at the time [01:17.04] [01:17.95]And then surely you make me own lave bright [01:26.75] [01:27.69]His parents they slight me and will not agree [01:33.64] [01:34.26]That i and my sailor boy married should be [01:40.22]But let them deride me and do what they will [01:46.21]While there's breath in my body he's the one i love still [01:54.57]So if i was a blackbird i'd whistle and sing [02:00.13] [02:01.26]And i'd follow the ship where my true love sails in [02:06.53] [02:07.29]And on the top riggings i'd there build my nest [02:12.90]And i'd pillow my head on his lily white breast