Galway bay chords by Bing Crosby
Verse 1
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G
C
If you ever go across
G
the sea to Ireland
Then maybe at the closing
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of your day
A
You will sit and watch the moon
D
rise over Claddagh
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And watch the barefoot gossoon
E
C
s at their play
G
Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream
Verse 2
C
The women in the meadows making hay
Gm
A
And to sit beside a turf fire
Bbdim
A
D
in the cabin
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Abdim
And see the sun go down
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E
C
on Galway Bay
G
For the breezes blowing over the seas from
Verse 3
Ireland
Are perfumed by the heather
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as they blow
Bbdim
And the women in the uplands
D
diggin' prates
G
Speak a language that the strangers
C
do not know
Verse 4
C
For the strangers came and tried
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to teach us their way
They scorned us just for being
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what we are
A
But they might as well
D
go chasing after moonbeams
G
Or light a penny candle
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E
C
from a star
G
And if there is going to be a life hereafter
Verse 5
And faith I am sure there's
C
F#dim
going to be
C
Gm
A
I will ask my God to let me
D
make my heaven
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Abdim
In that dear land across
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E
Abdim
C
D
C
E
the Irish sea
Galway bay
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