I Know Where I'm Going
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
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Refrain
I know where I'm goin'
And I know who's goin' with me.
I know who I love
But the devil knows who I'll marry.
I have stockings of silk
And shoes of bright green leather,
Combs to buckle my hair
And a ring for every finger.
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Feather beds are soft
And painted rooms are bonnie,
But I would give them all
For my handsome, winsome Johnny.
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Some say that he's poor,
But I say that he's bonnie.
The fairest of them all
Is my handsome, winsome Johnny.
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"I Know Where I'm Going" is a traditional Irish (or Scottish) ballad about a wealthy love-struck<br> young woman pining for her "bonnie" lover Johnny who some say has a bad reputation. It has been<br> known since the early nineteenth century.<br> It is in the Roud Folk Song Index as #5701. <br> It was printed in<br> Colum's Broad-Sheet Ballads,<br> Kane's Songs & Sayings of an Ulster Childhood (1983),<br> Soodlum's Irish ballad Book, (1982), <br> Walton's New Treasury of Irish Songs & Ballads 2 (1966) and<br> Walton's 132 Best Irish Songs & Ballads (c1950).<br> It was recorded by Burl Ives on Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger,<br> Kathleen Ferrier, Odetta, The Weavers, The Clancy Brothers, Judy Collins, Barbara Dane,<br> The Highwaymen, The New Christy Minstrels, Harry Belafonte, Carolyn Hester, Laura Wright,<br> Pete Seeger and others.<br>
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