My Own Dear Galway Bay-Donal Lunny

[ti:My Own Dear Galway Bay] [ar:Donal Lunny] [al:The Hungry Voice (The Song Legacy Of Ireland's Great Hunger] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.46]It's far away I am today [00:05.78]From scenes I roamed a boy [00:10.03] [00:10.70]And long ago the hour I know [00:15.47]When I first saw Illinois [00:20.51]But time not tide not waters wide [00:26.06]Can wean my heart away [00:30.46] [00:31.06]For ever true it flies to you [00:36.30]My own dear Galway Bay [00:40.56] [00:42.16]My chosen bride is by my side [00:47.53]Her brown hair silver-grey [00:51.43] [00:52.46]Her daughter Rose [00:55.10]As like her grows as April dawn today [01:02.07] [01:02.78]Our only boy his mother's joy [01:08.04]His father's pride and stay [01:12.69] [01:13.46]With gifts like these I'd live at ease [01:18.87]Were I near Galway Bay [01:23.12] [01:24.90]Oh grey and bleak by shore and creek [01:30.56]The rugged rocks abound [01:34.24] [01:35.38]But sweet and green the grass between [01:40.55]As grows on Irish ground [01:44.61] [01:45.23]When friendship fond all wealth beyond [01:50.75]And love that lives away [01:55.25] [01:55.98]Bless each poor home beside your foam [02:01.56]My own dear Galway Bay [02:06.13] [02:08.23]A prouder man I'd walk the land [02:13.16]In health and peace of mind [02:16.46] [02:17.55]If I might toil and strive and moil [02:22.46]Nor cast one thought behind [02:26.82] [02:27.69]But what would be the world to me [02:32.79]When it's rank and rich array [02:37.08] [02:37.74]If memory I lost of thee [02:43.50]My own dear Galway Bay [02:47.89] [02:49.32]Had I youth's blood and hopeful mood [02:54.68]And heart of fire once more [02:58.46] [02:59.58]For all the gold the earth might hold [03:04.77]I'd never leave your shore [03:09.05] [03:09.59]I'd live content whatever God sent [03:14.83]With neighbours old and grey [03:19.36] [03:20.11]And lay my bones 'neath churchyard stones [03:25.60]Beside you Galway Bay [03:29.76] [03:31.77]The blessings of a poor old man [03:36.99]Be with you night and day [03:41.16] [03:42.09]The blessings of a poor old man [03:47.60]Whose heart will soon be clay [03:52.24] [03:53.08]'Tis all the heaven I ask of God [03:58.58]Upon my dying day [04:03.04] [04:03.56]My soul to soar forever more [04:09.33]Above you Galway Bay [04:13.29]My Own Dear Galway Bay - Donal Lunny [04:14.54]