Sweet King Williams Town - Andy M. Stewart

My bonnie barque floats light and free

Across the surging foam

It bears me far from Innisfail

To seek a foreign home

A lonely exile traveller

'Neath misfortune’s cruel frown

Away from home and the friends so dear

In sweet King Williams Town

While here upon the deck I stand

And watch the surging foam

Kind thoughts arise all in my mind

For friends I’ll ne’er see more

For childhood days and all happy hours

As fast the tears roll down

For my old home and the friends so dear

In sweet King Williams Town

Shall I no more gaze on that shore

Or view those mountains high

Or gaze along Black Water’s banks

Where I roamed as a boy

For to view the sun over Knockacummer

Light up the heather brown

Before she flings her little farewell beams

Over sweet King Williams Town