Bonny Portmore (CHORDS) by The Rails

[Intro]~
G  Am   C   G


[Verse]~
G       Am           C               G
O Bonny Portmore you shine where you stand

G                    Am
And the more I think of you,..!!

   C             G
The more I think long

    C        G        Am        Em
If I have you now as I have once before

       C            G
All the Lords of Old England

         Am           D
Would not purchase Portmore!


[Verse]~
G       Am             C       G
O Bonny Portmore I am sorry to see

G                Am
Such a woeful destruction

       C        G
Of your ornament tree

      C              G
For it stood on your shore

   Am              Em
For many’s the long day

        C               G
’Til the long boats from Antrim

       Am        D
Came to float it away!


[Instrumental]~
G  Am  C  G
G  Am  C  G
C  G  Am  Em
C  G  Am  D


[Verse]~
G       Am           C               G
O Bonny Portmore you shine where you stand

G                    Am
And the more I think of you

   C            G
The more I think long

    C       G        Am       Em
If I had you now as I had once before

       C            G
All the Lords of Old England

         Am           D
Would not purchase Portmore!


[Verse]~
G       Am           C               G
O Bonny Portmore you shine where you stand

G                    Am
And the more I think of you

   C            G
The more I think long

    C       G        Am        Em
If I had you now as I had once before

       C            G
All the Lords of Old England

         Am            D
Would not purchase Portmore!


[Verse]~
       G            Am          C        G
All the birds in the forest they bitterly weep

G                      Am
Saying “where shall we shelter

   C              G
And where shall we sleep!!..?”

       C           G
For the Oak and the Ash

        Am         Em
They are all cutten down

       C                   G
And the walls of Bonny Portmore

   Am           D
Are down to the ground!


[Verse]~
G       Am           C               G
O Bonny Portmore you shine where you stand

G                    Am
And the more I think of you

   C            G
The more I think long

    C       G        Am        Em
If I had you now as I had once before

       C            G
All the Lords of Old England

         Am           D
Would not purchase Portmore!


[Outro]~
G  Am  C  G
G  Am  C  G
C  G  Am  Em
C  G  Am  D