Bonny Boys and Girls

from From Bog To Swamp by Heavy Blarney

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about

The song 'Bonny Boys and Girls' is ostensibly about the long boat journey undertaken by pakeha (non-Maori) settlers on their way to a new country (Aotearoa / New Zealand) )where they had been told they would have a fresh start on their own land. Many of them arrived only to find to their surprise that there were already people living on that land, and those people were not aware that they had supposedly "sold" it. Going further back in history, the first Maori settlers undertook a perilous journey to get to Aotearoa. The stories of the heroic people who arrived in the first waka are still told by the tangata whenua (people of the land). So in the broadest sense, this song is really about the journey of any new immigrant to Aotearoa, and their hopes and dreams of a better life.

lyrics

Come dance the night away my girls
My bonny girls, my hopeful girls
Come dance the night away my girls
Tomorrow we'll be sailing

Come dance the night away my boys
My bonny boys, my hopeful boys
Come dance the night away my boys
Tomorrow we'll be sailing

A hundred days at sea
Pulled onward by a dream
Enduring every day
For a home so far away

Come join a game of cards my boys
My bonny boys, my hopeful boys
Come join a game of cards my boys
Tomorrow we'll still be sailing

Come sing a song of love my girls
My bonny girls, my hopeful girls
Come sing a song of love my girls
Tomorrow we'll still be sailing

A hundred days at sea
Pulled onward by a dream
Enduring every day
For a home so far away

And on the dark horizon
A storm begins a-rising
The wind and rain are pounding
And the boat feels like it foundering

Come dance the night away my love

credits

from From Bog To Swamp, released September 11, 2018
Bing Turkby: vocals, guitar, synth bass, accordion, tenor banjo
Paul Turner: fiddle
Adam Crawford: drums

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Heavy Blarney Palmerston North, New Zealand

Celtic rock from Te Papaioea (Palmerston North) Aotearoa (New Zealand).
New arrangements of traditional Celtic tunes and songs, and original compositions in a similar style. Propelling proceedings into the swampy aether.