Artist: Otto Brandenburg Title: 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. =======================================================
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