My Own Dear Galway Bay-Larry Cunningham

[ti:My Own Dear Galway Bay] [ar:Larry Cunningham] [al:The Very Best of Larry Cunningham's Ireland] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.18]My Own Dear Galway Bay - Larry Cunningham [00:00.95]Written by：Frank A. Fahy [00:02.06] [00:08.91]It's far away I am today [00:12.97]From scenes I roamed a boy [00:15.52] [00:17.14]And long ago the hour I know [00:21.16]I first saw Illinois [00:24.48] [00:25.37]Not time nor tide nor water wide [00:29.16]Could wean my heart away [00:32.51] [00:33.59]Forever true it fly to you [00:37.70]My own dear Galway Bay [00:40.64] [00:41.68]Oh grey and bleak by shore and creek [00:46.00]The rugged rocks abound [00:49.04] [00:49.88]But sweet and green the grass between [00:54.05]As grows on Irish ground [00:57.27] [00:58.29]But friendship fond all wealth beyond [01:02.28]And love that lives always [01:05.56] [01:06.34]Bless every home around your foam [01:10.54]My old dear Galway Bay [01:13.57] [01:23.05]Had I youth's blood and hopeful mood [01:27.14]And heart of fire once more [01:30.28] [01:31.19]For all the gold the world might hold [01:35.21]I'd never leave your shore [01:38.61] [01:39.40]I'd live content whatever god sent [01:43.51]With neighbors old and grey [01:46.69] [01:47.41]And leave my bones 'neath churchyard stones [01:51.85]Beside you galway bay [01:54.94] [01:55.85]Now [01:55.95]The blessings of a poor old man [01:59.95]Be with you night and day [02:03.08] [02:04.25]The blessings of a lonely man [02:08.24]Whose heart will soon be clay [02:11.49] [02:12.24]'Tis all the heaven I will ask my god [02:16.46]Upon my dying day [02:19.63] [02:20.44]My soul to soar forever more [02:24.66]Above you galway bay [02:27.62] [02:28.66]My soul to soar forever more [02:32.94]Above you galway bay [02:38.14]