Bantry Bay-John McCormack

[ti:Bantry Bay] [ar:John McCormack] [al:The Voice of Ireland: 25 Popular Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.95]Bantry Bay - John McCormack (麦考梅克) [00:01.64]Written by：James Molloy [00:02.29] [00:13.42]As I'm sitting all alone in the gloaming [00:20.80]It might have been but yesterday [00:25.05] [00:25.65]That we watched the fisher's sails all homing [00:31.59]Till the little herring fleet at anchor lay [00:36.53] [00:37.17]Then the fisher girls with baskets swinging [00:42.76]Came running down the old stone way [00:48.21]Every lassie to her sailor lad was singing [00:54.92] [00:55.43]Ah welcome back to bantry bay [01:00.69] [01:06.67]Then we heard the pipers sweet note tuning [01:13.02]And all the lassies turned to hear [01:18.63]As they mingled with a soft voice crooning [01:24.12]Till the music floated down the wooden pier [01:28.71] [01:29.57]Save you kindly colleens all said the piper [01:35.71]Hands across and trip it while I play [01:40.79] [01:41.35]And the tender sound of song and merry dancing [01:49.27]Stole softly over bantry bay [01:56.57] [01:58.29]As I'm sitting all alone in the gloaming [02:06.53]The shadows of the past draw near [02:12.96] [02:13.61]And I see the lovely faces round me [02:20.11]That used to glad the old front pier [02:26.38] [02:27.13]Some have gone upon their last logged homing [02:33.81]Some are left but they are old and gray [02:43.96] [02:44.78]And we're waiting for the tide in the gloaming [02:51.73]To sail upon the great highway [02:56.52]To the land of rest unending [03:05.53] [03:06.50]All peacefully from bantry bay