Galway Bay-The Irish Boys

[ti:Galway Bay] [ar:The Irish Boys] [al:Irish Wild Rover Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Galway Bay - The Irish Boys [00:16.38]If you ever go across the sea to Ireland [00:22.34] [00:24.83]Then maybe at the closing of your day [00:29.87] [00:32.04]You will sit and watch the moonrise over claddagh [00:38.16] [00:39.85]And see the sun go down on galway bay [00:45.96] [00:47.51]Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream [00:54.26] [00:56.15]The women in the meadows making hay [01:01.48] [01:03.34]And to sit beside a turf fire in the cabin [01:09.11] [01:11.64]And watch the barefoot gossoons at their play [01:17.06] [01:19.45]For the breezes blowing over the seas from Ireland [01:25.78] [01:27.40]Are perfumed by the heather as they blow [01:32.81] [01:34.70]And the women in the uplands digging praties [01:41.68] [01:42.86]Speak a language that the strangers do not know [01:49.08] [02:22.45]For the strangers came and tried to teach their way [02:28.73] [02:30.24]They scorned us just for being what we are [02:35.67] [02:38.12]But they might as well go chasing after moonbeams [02:45.21] [02:46.25]Or light a penny candle from a star [02:51.33] [02:53.97]And if there is going to be a life hereafter [02:59.74] [03:01.64]And somehow I am sure there's going to be [03:07.32] [03:09.05]I will ask my God to let me make my heaven [03:14.92] [03:17.03]In that dear land across the Irish sea