Galway Bay

Galway Bay A7 Em A7 D G D A7 D A7 A7 D If you ever go across the sea to Ireland, be it only at the closing of your day, D D7 Em You can sit and watch the moon rise over Claddagh, Em A7 D G D A7 and see the sun go down on Galway Bay. D A7 A7 D Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream, The women in the meadows making hay D D7 Em Or to sit beside the turf fire in a cabin, Em A7 D G D A7 and watch the barefoot gosoons at their play D A7 For the breezes blowing o'er the sea's from Ireland, A7 D Are perfumed by the heather as they blow, D D7 Em And the women in the uplands digging praties Em A7 D G D A7 Speak a language that the strangers do not know. D A7 Yet the strangers came and tried to teach us their ways, A7 D And they scorned us just for being what we are, D D7 Em Em A7 D But they might as well go chasin after moon beams, or light a penny candle from a star. A7 Em A7 D B7 E B7 B7 E And if there's gonna be a life here after, And somehow I feel sure there's going be, E E7 F#m F#m B7 E I will ask my God to let me make my Heaven, In that dear land across the Irish sea. B7 F#m B7 E A E