Key: G
Introduction:
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In the fall of the year, she flew across the ocean
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To Ireland, the land of her fathers
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When we said goodbye, a tear was in her eye
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I lost her then and there, my Irish angel
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The first letter came, she said she loved it there
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And how much she wished I was there with her
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She wrote it on a hill, in a gentle Irish rain
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I saw her in my mind, my Irish angel
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I wrote her back and then there was no second letter
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Just the silence of the snow that fell around me
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I let her down, I know, the day I let her go
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Now she's found someone else, my Irish angel
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The first time I saw her, my heart went in a spin
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When they speak of love they call it fallin
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It was like I held my breath, 'til laid eyes on her again
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Too beautiful, she was my Irish angel
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And when I stole a glance, then too a stolen kiss
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I thought I knew the chance that I was takin'
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And though I never knew a love as strong as this
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Or what it was to feel my own heart breaking
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So now I raise a glass and then I raise another
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One to forget, one to remember
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And one just to dream of how things could have been
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If I hadn't lost my Irish angel