Galway Bay lyrics by Otto Brandenburg
Artist: Otto BrandenburgTitle: Galway Bay
Writer: Dr. Arthur Colohan (1947)
Otto [Herman Max] Brandenburg (4 September 1934 - 1 March 2007) was a Danish musician, singer and actor and film score composer.
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If you ever go across the sea to Ireland
Then may be 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
Yeah
Just to hear again
the ripple of the trout stream
The women in the
meadows making hay
And to sit beside the
turf fire in the cabin
And watch the barefoot
gossoons at their play
For the breezes blowing
over the sea from Ireland
Are perfumed by the
heather as they blow
And the women in
the upland digging praties
Speak a language that
the strangers do not know
Yeah
For the strangers came and
tried to teach us their way
They scorned us just
for being what we are
But they might as well go
chasing after moon beams
Or light in a penny
candle from a star
Yeah, hey
And if there's going
to be a life here after
And somehow I'm 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
