Galway Bay Song Lyrics and Chords by Johnny Paycheck
Galway Bay
Recorded by Johnny Paycheck
Written by Arthur Colaham
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If you ever go across the sea to
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Ireland
Then maybe at the closing of your
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day
You will sit and watch the moon rise over
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Claddagh
And
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see the sun go down on Galway
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Bay
Just to hear again the rippling of the
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trout
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See the women in the meadows making
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hay
And to sit beside a turf fire in the
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cabin
And
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watch the barefoot gossoons at their
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play
For the strangers came and tried to teach us
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their
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They scorn us just for being what we
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are
But they might as well go chasing after
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moonbeams
Or
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light a penny candle from a
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star
And if there's going to be a life
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hereafter
And somehow I am sure there's going to
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be
I will ask my God to let me make my
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heaven
In
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that dear land across the Irish
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sea
So I can
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watch the sun go down on Galway
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Bay
FAQ
Who sang the the song Galway Bay?
- The song Galway Bay was sang by Johnny Paycheck.
Who is Johnny Paycheck?
- Johnny Paycheck (born Donald Eugene Lytle May 31, 1938 - February 19, 2003) was an American country music singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Grand Ole Opry member notable for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It". He achieved his greatest success in the 1970s as a force in country music's "outlaw movement" popularized by artists Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, and Merle Haggard. In the 1980s, his music career slowed due to drug, alcohol and legal problems. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s and his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000. In 1980, Paycheck appeared on the PBS music program Austin City Limits (season 5).
