Galway Bay Chords

Capo 1
 
[Intro]
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If you ever go across the sea to Ireland,
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then maybe at the closing of your day,
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you can sit and watch the moon rise over Claddagh,
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and see the sun go down on Galway Bay.
 
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Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream,
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The women in the meadow making hay,
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just to sit beside the turf fire in a cabin,
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and watch the barefoot gossoons as they play
 
G   D    Em D    G  D   A
Ooooh   Ooooh   Ooooh oooh
 
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For the breezes blowing o'er the seas from Ireland,
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Are perfumed by the heather as they blow,
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And the women in the uplands digging praties
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Speak a language that the strangers do not know.
 
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Yet the strangers came and tried to teach us their ways,
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And they scorned us just for being what we are,
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But they might as well go chasin' after moonbeams,
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or light a penny candle from a star.
 
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And if there's gonna be a life hereafter,
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And somehow I'm sure there's gonna be,
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I will ask my God to let me make my Heaven,
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In that dear land across the Irish sea.
 
    D                                 G
I will ask my God to let me make my Heaven,
    A                              D
In my dear land across the Irish sea.
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