Moonlight in Mayo/Wild Colonial Boy/Lovely Leitrim-Tony Stevens

[ti:Galway Bay] [ar:Various] [al:Original Irish Tenors: The Legendary Voices Of Celtic Song] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Moonlight in Mayo/Wild Colonial Boy/Lovely Leitrim - Tony Stevens [00:16.89]If you ever go across the sea to Ireland [00:22.08] [00:23.54]Then maybe at the closing of your day [00:28.46] [00:29.71]You will sit and watch the moon rise over Claddagh [00:36.12] [00:38.26]And see the sun go down on Galway Bay [00:44.77] [00:46.25]Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream [00:50.54] [00:51.44]The women in the meadows making hay [00:55.85] [00:57.16]And to sit beside a turf fire in the cabin [01:03.27] [01:05.46]And watch the barefoot gossoons at their play [01:11.19] [01:12.98]For the breezes blowing over the seas from Ireland [01:17.69] [01:19.27]Are perfumed by the heather as they blow [01:23.86] [01:24.82]And the women in the uplands diggin' prates [01:31.29] [01:33.23]Speak a language that the strangers do not know [01:39.55] [01:40.66]For the strangers came and tried to teach us their way [01:45.32] [01:46.04]They scorned us just for being what we are [01:51.25] [01:52.67]But they might as well go chasing after moonbeams [01:59.83] [02:01.98]Or light a penny candle from a star [02:09.47] [02:11.38]And if there is going to be a life hereafter [02:16.47] [02:18.10]And somehow I am sure there's going to be [02:22.98] [02:24.46]I will ask my God to let me make my heaven [02:31.63] [02:34.89]In that dear land across the Irish sea