Key: G
Introduction:
G D7
If you ever go across the sea to Ireland
G
Then maybe at the closing of your day
C
You will sit and watch the moon rise over Claddagh
D7 G
And see the sun go down on Galway Bay
D7
Just to hear again the rippling of the trout stream
G
See the women in the meadows making hay
C
And to sit beside a turf fire in the cabin
D7 G
And watch the barefoot gossoons at their play
D7
For the strangers came and tried to teach us their way
G
They scorn us just for being what we are
C
But they might as well go chasing after moonbeams
D7 G
Or light a penny candle from a star
D7
And if there's going to be a life hereafter
G
And somehow I am sure there's going to be
C
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