Galway Bay chords by Norma O'Hara Murphy

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Verse 1
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If you ever go across
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the sea to Ireland
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Then maybe at the closing of your day
You can sit and watch the
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moon rise over Kladdach
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And see the sun go down on Galway Bay
Just to hear again the ripple
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of the trout stream
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The women in the meadow making hay
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Just to sit beside the turf farm in the cabin
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And watch the barefoot gossips
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as they play
For the breezes blowin' o 'er
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the sea from Ireland
They're perfumed by the
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heather as they blow
And the women in the outline
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diggin' taddies
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Speak a language that the
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strangers do not know
Yet the strangers came and
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tried to teach us their ways
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And scorned us just for being what we are
But they might as well go
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chasing after moonbeams
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Or light a penny candle from
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a star
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Now, if there is gone to be a life hereafter
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And somehow I am sure there's God to be
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I will ask my God to let me make my heaven
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In that dear land across the
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Irish Sea
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You
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