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Galway Bay

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GIf you ever go across the sea to D7Ireland
Then maybe at the closing of your Gday
You will sit and watch the moon rise over CCladdagh
And D7see the sun go down on Galway GBay
Just to hear again the rippling of the D7trout stream
See the women in the meadows making Ghay
And to sit beside a turf fire in the Ccabin
And D7watch the barefoot gossoons at their Gplay
For the strangers came and tried to teach us D7their way
They scorn us just for being what we Gare
But they might as well go chasing after Cmoonbeams
Or D7light a penny candle from a Gstar
And if there's going to be a life D7hereafter
And somehow I am sure there's going to Gbe
I will ask my God to let me make my Cheaven
In D7that dear land across the Irish Gsea
So I can D7watch the sun go down on Galway GBay  

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Galway Bay

by Johnny Paycheck

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G D7

If you ever go across the sea to Ireland

Then maybe at the closing of your day

You will sit and watch the moon rise over Claddagh

D7 G

And see the sun go down on Galway Bay

Just to hear again the rippling of the trout stream

See the women in the meadows making hay

And to sit beside a turf fire in the cabin

D7 G

And watch the barefoot gossoons at their play

For the strangers came and tried to teach us their way

They scorn us just for being what we are

But they might as well go chasing after moonbeams

D7 G

Or light a penny candle from a star

And if there's going to be a life hereafter

And somehow I am sure there's going to be

I will ask my God to let me make my heaven

D7 G

In that dear land across the Irish sea

D7 G

So I can watch the sun go down on Galway Bay

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