《Galway Bay(1949)》歌词

[00:00:08] if you ever go across the sea to ireland,

[00:00:14] then maybe at the closing of your day;

[00:00:21] you will sit and watch the moonrise over claddagh,

[00:00:29] and watch the barefoot gossoons at their play

[00:00:37] just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream,

[00:00:44] the women in the meadows making hay;

[00:00:51] and to sit beside a turf fire in the cabin,

[00:00:59] and see the sun go down on galway bay,

[00:01:13] for the breezes blowing o'er the seas from ireland,

[00:01:20] are perfum'd by the heather as they blow;

[00:01:27] and the women in the uplands diggin' praties,

[00:01:35] speak a language that the strangers do not know,

[00:01:43] for the strangers came and tried to teach their way

[00:01:50] they scorn'd us just for being what we are;

[00:01:57] but they might as well go chasing after moonbeams,

[00:02:04] or light a penny candle from a star.

[00:02:12] and if there is going to be a life hereafter,

[00:02:20] and somehow i am sure there's going to be;

[00:02:28] i will ask my god to let me make my heaven,

[00:02:38] in that dear land across the irish sea.