The Isla Waters [English translation]

I have friends to buy me whisky

Bonny friends to call my own

But if I should get too drunk for walking

Who's the man that would carry me home?

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And if I be drowned in the Isla Waters

How the hell would I get home?

And if I be drowned in the Isla Waters

My little doggie would find me in the Isla stream.

Every day I cross that water

Aye, she's bright and clear to see

But after hours of alehouse laughter

Dark and still she waits on me.

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Like the fisher's line that's broken

Leaves the salmon to the swell

Many's the night you've had me soaking

Because you broke the line yourself.

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All my days I've lived a cottar*

Bad and good times have I seen

But should I drown in your water,

My little doggie would find me in the Isla stream.

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*Per the glossary in the back of the songbook "a farmworker who has a cottage as part of his contract"