The Bonny Bunch Of Roses

The Bonny Bunch Of Roses - Séamus Ennis

By the margin of the ocean

One pleasant evening in the month of june

When all those feathered songsters

Their liquid notes did sweetly tune

'Twas there I spied a female

And on her features the signs of woe

Conversing with young bonaparte

Concerning the bonny

Bunch of roses O

Then up speaks young napoleon

And takes his mother by the hand

Saying Mother dear be patient

Until I'm able to take command

And I'll raise a mighty army

And through tremendous dangers go

And I will never return again till

I've conquered the bonny

Bunch of roses O

When first you saw great bonaparte

You fell upon your bended knee

And you asked your father's life of him

He granted it right manfully

And 'twas then he took his army

And o'er the frozen alps did go

And he said I'll conquer moscow

And return for the bonny

Bunch of roses O

He took three hundred thousand men

And kinds likewise to bear his train

He was so well provided for

That he could sweep

The world for gain

But when he came to moscow

He was overpowered

By the sleet and snow

With moscow all a blazing

And he lost the bonny

Bunch of roses O

Now son be not too venturesome

For england is the heart of oak

And england ireland scotland

Their unity shall ne'er be broke

Remember your brave father

In saint helena he lies low

And if you follow after

Beware of the bonny

Bunch of roses O

O mother adieu forever

For now I lie on my dying bed

If I lived I'd have been clever

But now I droop my youthful head

But when our bones lie mouldering

And weeping willow o'er us grow

The name of young napoleon

Will enshrine the bonny

Bunch of roses O