Galway Bay Lyrics - George Morgan

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 

And see the sun go down on Galway Bay 

Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream 

The women in the meadows making hay 

And to sit beside a turf fire in the cabin 

And watch the barefoot gossoons at their play 

(For the strangers came and tried to teach us their way 

They scorned us just for being what we are) 

But they might as well go chasing after moonbeans 

Or light a penny candle from a star 

And if there is gonna to be a life hereafter 

And somehow I am sure there's gonna be 

I will ask my God to let me make my heaven 

In that dear land across the Irish sea