Galway Bay Lyrics - Hank Locklin

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 a cabin 

And watch the barefoot gosoons at their play. 

For the breezes blowing o'er the sea to Ireland, 

Are perfumed by the heather as they blow. 

And the women in the uplands digging praties 

Speak a language that the strangers do no know. 

For the strangers came and tried to teach us their ways, 

And scorned us just for being what we are 

But they might as well be chasing after moonbeams 

Or light a penny candle from a star 

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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 

In that dear land across the Irish Sea. 

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