My bonnie bark floats light and free Across the surging foam It bears me far from Innisfail To seek a foreign home A lonely exile travel o'erneath Misfortune's cruel frown Far away from home and the friends so dear In sweet Kingwilliamstown 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 Kingwilliamstown Shall I no more gaze upon that shore Or view those mountains high Or gaze upon Blackwater's bays Where I rambled as a child For to view the sun o'er Knockacabar Light up the heather brown Before she flings her farewell beams O'er sweet Kingwilliamstown ♪ I know not yet, but I fondly hold Where'er my footsteps roam Will always linger in my heart Kind thoughts of friends at home So fare thee well sweetest mountain As the night comes softly down Oh God be with you higher land And sweet Kingwilliamstown