Irish Songs With Easy Chords & Lyrics
My Own Dear Galway Bay
| D | G | D |
| It's far away I | am to | day |
From scenes I roamed a boy
| A | G |
| And long ago the | hour, I know |
| D | G |
| But Time not Tide, not | waters | wide, |
| A | D |
| Can wean my | heart a | way |
| G | D |
| For ever true it | flies to | you |
| G | D |
| My own dear | Galway | Bay |
A prouder man I'd walk the lad
In health and peace of mind,
If I might toil and strive and moil,
Nor cast one thought behind;
But what would be the world to me,
Its rank and rich array,
If memory I lost of thee,
My poor old Galway Bay.
Oh, grey and bleak, by shore and creek,
The rugged rocks abound,
But sweeter green the grass between
Than grows on Irish ground.
So friendship fond, all wealth beyond,
And love that lives alway,
Bless each poor home beside your foam,
My dear old Galway Bay.
Had I youth's blood and hopeful mood
And heart of fire once more,
For all the gold the earth might hold,
I'd never quit your shore;
I'd live content whate'er God sent,
With neighbours old and grey,
And lay my bones 'neath churchyard stones,
Beside you, Galway Bay.
The blessing of a poor old man
Be with you night and day,
The blessings of a lonely man
Whose heart will soon be clay.
'Tis all the Heaven I'd ask of God
Upon my dying day
My soul to soar for evermore
Above you, Galway Bay.
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