J. P. Cormier - Kelly's Mountain lyrics

[Chorus 1] If I could only fly; if I could build a bridge, I'd carry you my love across the spanning bridge. If there were just some way I'd pull a carriage through the snow: take you over Kelly's Mountain to the village there below, and no one would ever know. [Verse 1] Oh the snow was high again in the year of 1910 when I rode over Kelly's top from Lake Bras d'Or O're the mountain I had come without rapier, without gun to fetch my fathers order from the St. Anne store. As I purchased my supplies a pretty maiden caught my eye, her beauty shone upon me like the sun As my heart melted away I heard somebody say "that is the daughter fair of Hugh MacGowan". Well she knew she caught my eye and she smiled as she walked by saying "meet me when the stars come out tonight. On the high road I will wait by old Don Campbell's gate and we'll sing as song of love there in the moonlight". [Chorus] [Verse 2] I knew MacGowan was a man with a very heavy hand, and his daughter was the meaning to his life. All her suitors they had come to the wrong end of his gun. As long as he was living she'd be no man's wife. But I met her 'neith the stars and I took her in my arms and she said please take me with you when you go. Beneath my father's cruel hand no longer I can stand I'll leave with you and he will never know. [Chorus] [Verse 3] We were halfway up the hill when a gunshot broke the still and I felt the pain burn deep within my side. She said "My God we have to run, my father has a gun and he'll never let you take me as your bride". In my pain I slipped and fell and it wasn't hard to tell that MacGowan cursed my soul up far behind I pulled her sobbing to my breast saying "Here I've come to rest, but there's something that I wish before I'm dying" [Chorus 2] "If you could only fly; if you could build a bridge, You'd carry me my love across that spanning bridge. Please tell my father why you had to bury me in the snow near the top of Kelly's Mountain where the winds forever blow or no one will ever know"