Bantry Bay-John McCormack

[ti:Bantry Bay] [ar:John McCormack/Gerald Moore] [al:John McCormack sings Popular Songs & Irish Ballads] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Bantry Bay - John McCormack [00:12.08]As I'm sitting all alone in the gloaming [00:18.83] [00:19.52]It might have been but yesterday [00:23.52] [00:24.29]That we watched the fisher's sails all homing [00:30.23]Till the little herring fleet at anchor lay [00:34.72] [00:35.65]Then the fisher girls with baskets swinging [00:41.16]Came running down the old stone way [00:45.82] [00:46.41]Every lassie to her sailor lad was singing [00:52.37] [00:53.54]Ah welcome back to bantry bay [00:57.91] [01:04.62]Then we heard the pipers sweet note tuning [01:10.85]And all the lassies turned to hear [01:15.22] [01:16.10]As they mingled with a soft voice crooning [01:21.23] [01:21.76]Till the music floated down the wooden pier [01:25.81] [01:27.04]Save you kindly colleens all said the piper [01:32.97]Hands across and trip it while I play [01:37.31] [01:38.53]And the tender sound of song and merry dancing [01:45.26] [01:46.38]Stole softly over bantry bay [01:52.82] [01:55.06]As I'm sitting all alone in the gloaming [02:02.08] [02:03.14]The shadows of the past draw near [02:08.85] [02:09.88]And I see the lovely faces round me [02:16.45]That used to glad the old front pier [02:21.69] [02:23.42]Some have gone upon their last logged homing [02:29.79]Some are left but they are old and gray [02:39.66] [02:40.49]And we're waiting for the tide in the gloaming [02:46.76] [02:47.36]To sail upon the great highway [02:51.55] [02:52.10]To the land of rest unending [02:59.43] [03:02.04]All peacefully from bantry bay