Galway Bay chords by
Finbar Wright 
Key: Eb major•
Verse 1
Eb
Bb
Fm
Db
Cm
Db
Ab
Db
Ab
If you ever
Bbm
Eb
go across the sea's twil and,
Db
Eb
Ab
then maybe at the closing of your day
You will sit and watch the
F
Bb
moon rise over Claddagh
Eb
Db
And see the sun go down on Galway Bay
Ab
Just to hear again the
Bbm
ripple of the trout stream
Eb
The women in the meadows making hay
Ab
F
Bb
Are to sit beside a tar fire in the cavern
Eb
And watch the barefoot Gothsons
Db
Cm
Db
at their play?
Ab
Are the breezes blowing
Bbm
Eb
o 'er the seas from Ire land
Bbm
Eb
Ab
Are per fumed by the heather as they blow
F
And the women in the up lands
Bb
digging prair ies
Eb
Speak a language
Ab
that the strangers do not know.
For the strangers came and tried
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Eb
to teach us their way.
Bbm
Eb
They scorned us just for being
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what we are.
But they might as well go
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Bb
chas ing after moonbeams.
Eb
A light, a penny -candle from
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Cm
Fm
Db
a star.
Eb
Ab
And if there's going to be
Eb
a life hereafter,
Cm
Db
An d somehow I am sure
Eb
there's going to be,
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Gb
F
I will ask my God to let me
Bb
make my heav en
Eb
Ab
In that dear land across the Irish Sea.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsEb Bb Fm Db Cm...
Eb
Bb
Fm
Db
Cm
Ab
Bbm
F
Gb
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