I’m not sure if I’m in the right forum but here it goes.
I’ve been looking for a song that my father always sings. I’ve had no luck in finding it so far. I think the title is called Gullway bay. Has anyone heard of this song and if so where can I download it.
Thank you in advance.
Try “Galway Bay”.
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 meadow making hay.
Just to sit beside a turf fire in the cabin,
And watch the barefoot gosoons at their play.
For the breezes blowin’ o’er the sea from Ireland
Are perfumed by the heather as they blow
And the women in the uplands diggin’ praties
Speak a language that the strangers do not know.
Yet the stangers came and tried to teach us their way.
They scorned us just for bein’ what we are.
But they might as well go chasing after moon beams,
Or light a penny candle from a star.
And if there’s is 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.
djm
Perhaps your father sings this version:
Galway Bay(by Tommy Makem, methinks)
Maybe someday I’ll go back again to Ireland,
If my dear old wife would only pass away!
She’s nearly got my heart broke with her nagging,
She’s got a mouth as big as Galway Bay.
See her drinking sixteen pints of Pabst Blue Ribbon
And then she can walk home without a sway;
If the sea was beer instead of salty water
She would live and die in Galway Bay.
See her drinking sixteen pints at Pat Joe Murphy’s
The barman says, “I think it’s time you go.”
Well, she doesn’t try to answer him in Gaelic
But in language that the clergy do not know.
On her back she has tattooed a map of Ireland
And when she takes her bath on Saturday,
She rubs the Sunlight Soap around by Claddagh
Just to watch the suds go down by Galway Bay.
That’s it. Thanks for both your help. I like The Pogues version of the second set of lyrics.