Galway Bay chords by Daniel O'Reilly

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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If  (D major) you ever go
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across the sea to  (A major) Ireland
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Be it only at the closing of your days  (D major) 
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You  (A major) can sit  (D major) and watch the
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moon rise over Claddagh  (G major) 
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And  (A major) see the sun go down on Galway Bay  (D major) 
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 (A major) Just to  (D major) hear again the rippling
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of  (A major) the trout stream
The women in the meadows
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making hay  (D major)  (A major) 
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Or to  (D major) sit beside a temp fire in a  (G major) cabin
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And  (A major) watch the livered horses at
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their  (D major) play  (G major)  (D major)  (A major)  (D major)  (G major)  (A major) 
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 (A major) For the strangers  (D major) came  (A major)  (D major) and tried
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to teach us their  (A major) ways
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They scorned us just for being what we are  (D major) 
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But  (A major) they might  (D major) as well  (A major) go  (D major) chasing
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after  (G major) their dreams
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Oh,  (A major) light a penny candle from a  (D major) star  (G major) 
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An (D major)  (A major) d if  (D major) there is go (A major) ing
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 (D major) to be life hereafter  (A major) 
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And somehow I feel sure there's going to  (D major) be
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I  (A major) will  (D major) ask my God to let
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me make my  (G major) heaven
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In that  (A major) little land across the Irish Sea  (D major) 
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 (G major) I   (D major)  (A major) will  (D major) ask my God to
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let me make my heaven  (G major) 
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In that  (A major) little land across the Irish  (D major) Sea.  (G major) 
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