Galway Bay chords by Otto Brandenburg

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Verse 1
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If you ever go across the sea to Ireland
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Then maybe at the closing of your day
You will sit and watch the moon rise
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Or will clutter and see the sun go down
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On Galway Bay
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Just to hear again
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the rippling of the trout stream
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The women in the mead
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ows making hay
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And  to sit beside a
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turf fire in the cabin
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And watch the barefoot garsoons
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at their play
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For the breezes blowing
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o 'er the seas from my    land
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Are perfumed by the heather as they blow
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And   the women in the uplands
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dig ging  craters
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Speak a language that  the
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strangers do not know
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But the strangers came and tried
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to teach us  their way
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They scorn us just
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for being what we are
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But they might as well go chas
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ing after moonbeams
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Or light a penny candle
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from a star
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And   if there is going to be
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a life hereafter
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And sometimes here there's going to be
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I will ask my God to let me
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make my heaven
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And that dear land across
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the Irish Sea
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