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It's far away I am today from scenes I roamed a boy |
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And long ago the hour I know I first saw Illinois |
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But time nor tide nor waters wide could wean my heart away |
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For ever true it flies to you, my dear old Galway Bay |
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Oh, grey and bleak, by shore and creek, the rugged rocks abound |
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But sweet and green the grass between, as grows on Irish ground |
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So friendship fond, all wealth beyond, and love that lives alway |
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Bless every home beside your foam, my dear old Galway Bay |
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Had I youth's blood and hopeful mood and a heart of fire once more |
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For all the gold the world might hold I'd never quit your shore |
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I'll be content whate'er God sent with neighbours old and gray |
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And lay my bones, 'neath churchyard stones, beside you, Galway Bay |
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The blessings of a poor old man be with you night and day |
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The blessings of a lonely man whose heart will soon be clay |
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It's all the Heaven I'll ask of God upon my dying day |
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My soul to soar for ever more above you, Galway Bay |
