Galway Bay-John McDermott

[ti:Galway Bay] [ar:John McDermott] [al:When I Grow Too Old To Dream] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.24]Galway Bay - John McDermott [00:01.61]Written by：John Mc Dermott/Anthony Kearns/Ronan Tynan/Finbar Wright [00:06.09] [00:12.59]If you ever go across the sea to Ireland [00:18.05] [00:18.90]Then maybe at the closing of your day [00:24.59]You will sit and watch [00:26.15]The moonrise over claddagh [00:30.45]And see the sun go down on galway bay [00:35.73] [00:36.68]Just to hear again the [00:38.71]Ripple of the trout stream [00:42.53] [00:43.11]The women in the meadows making hay [00:48.60]And to sit beside a turf fire in the cabin [00:53.67] [00:54.71]And watch the barefoot gossoons at their play [00:59.98] [01:12.97]For the breezes blowing o'er [01:15.64]The seas from Ireland [01:19.48]Are perfum'd by the heather as they blow [01:24.94]And the women in the uplands diggin' praties [01:30.97]Speak a language that [01:33.09]The strangers do not know [01:37.00]For the strangers came [01:39.38]And tried to teach us their way [01:42.49] [01:43.31]They scorn'd us just for being what we are [01:48.53] [01:49.24]But they might as well [01:50.98]Go chasing after moonbeams [01:55.11]Or light a penny candle from a star [02:01.54] [02:25.50]And if there is going to be a life here after [02:30.25] [02:31.20]And somehow I am sure there's going to be [02:36.47] [02:37.31]I will ask my god to let me make my [02:41.35]Heaven [02:43.04] [02:44.10]In that dear land across the Irish sea [02:54.00] [02:54.80]I will ask my god to let me make my [03:00.02]Heaven [03:03.53]In that dear land across the Irish sea