I haven’t been to Ireland which country I have been told is well-known for its natural beauty, rustic charm and interesting people. However I just love Irish songs and this one in particular which you’re going to hear is entitled “Galway Bay”. If you’re of the baby boomers’ generation, most probably you would have heard it in your childhood years.
It has a nostalgic appeal and to me the melody lingers long after the song is sung.
There are many versions of it but the one I have for you is sung by Joni James. She has a beautiful voice and the pictures shown in the accompanying video depict just a touch of Ireland in its natural beauty.
When you have the lyrics it's quite easy to sing along with the song; so here it is. The tempo is Celtic and typically Irish folk. Try it.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks to "itscalang" for sharing this video-clip with us.
Cheers!
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