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Heaven Around Galway Bay,

D	G
When they told me that Ireland was	heaven,

	A7	D
I said,	"That's where I'm longing to	stay."

	D	G
Then	an emigrant voice said "that's	my land

	D	A	D
if you	please Sir, I'll	show you the	way."

You will see smiling faces that greet you
with a "Cead Mile Failte" at store
and the candle burns bright in the
window of a cabin with only one door.


(Chorus)

	G	D
When you	see the moon rise over	Claddagh

	G	A
and the golden sand	kisses the	sea

	D	G
then you're	on the right road Sir for	heaven

	D	A	D
for it's	heaven a	round Galway	Bay.

In the church on the hill in the moonlight
you can hear a sweet angel voice sing
It's the angel whose heart I might gladden
when I give her my gold Claddagh ring.


And the carling who smiles so divinely
at the sound of the bell stops to pray
just you turn and say"God let she
kindly" and to heaven she'll show you the wa

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