GALWAY BAY   Time: 4/4   Tenor: C   Bass: C
- Dr. Arthur Colahan, 1947


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If you ever go a-cross the sea to Ireland,
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Then maybe at the closing of your day
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You will sit and watch the moon rise over Cladagh
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And see the sun go down on Galway Bay

Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream
The women in the meadows making hay
And to sit beside a turf fire in the cabin
And watch the barefoot gossons at their play

For the breezes blowing o'er the sea to Ireland
Are perfum'd by the heather as they blow
And the women in the uplands digging praties
Speak a language that the strangers do not know

For the strangers tried to come and teach us their way
They scorned us just for being what we are
But they might as well go chasing after moonbeams
Or light a penny candle from a star

And if there is going to be a life here-after
And somehow I am sure there's going to be
I shall ask my God to let me make my heaven
In that dear land across the Irish Sea


ENDING: REPEAT FIRST VERSE