Johnny Paycheck - Galway bay

^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