Galway Bay – Bing Cosby

Galway Bay
Written by: Arthur Colahan

Galway Bay Lyrics

If you ever go across the sea to Ireland
Then maybe at the closing of your day
You will sit and watch the moon rise over Claddagh
And watch the barefoot gossoons at their play

Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream
The women in the meadows making hay
And to sit beside a turf fire in the cabin
And see the sun go down on Galway Bay

For the breezes blowing over the seas from Ireland
Are perfumed by the heather as they blow
And the women in the uplands diggin' prates
Speak a language that the strangers do not know

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 moonbeams
Or light a penny candle from a star

And if there is going to be a life hereafter
And faith I am 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

Galway Bay Singers

1. Michael O'Higgins 1943
2. Bing Crosby with Orchestra directed by Victor Young (billboard hit 1949) January 1948

3. Josef Locke with Orchestra conducted by Debroy Somers October 1948 4. Anne Shelton 1949 5. Patrick O'Hagan with Hal Stead at the Piano 1954 6. Carmel Quinn February 21, 1955 7. Ruby Murray with Ray Martin & His Orchestra November 1955 8. The Three Suns with Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Marty Gold and Sid RaminJune 1956 9. The Betty Smith Group 1958 10. Joni James 1959 11. Ron Lees 1959 12. Schmidtt Brothers 1959 13. Sam Cooke April 1960 14. Otto Brandenburg med Bertrand Bechs orkester 1960 15. George Morgan August 1961 16. Teresa Duffy with Accompaniment directed by Johnny Gregory 1962 17. Hank Snow April 1963 18. Slim Whitman November 1963 19. Jimmy Little 1963 20. Hank Locklin January 1964 21. Uncle Bob 1964 22. Dick Nolan 1964 23. Frank Fontaine 1964 24. John Gary 1965 25. Harry Rusk with The Rodgers Bros. Band 1966 26. Majella with Don Lowes & His Orchestra 1969 27. Tim Connor 1975 28. Susan McCann & The Storytellers 1977 29. Mary McGonigle 1978 30. Reg Poole 1982 31. Don Winters and The Winters Brothers 1984 32. Ken Mullan 1986 33. Daniel O'Donnell 1987 34. Johnny Loughrey 1991 35. Rose-Marie 1996 36. Foster & Allen 1997 37. Tommy Fleming 2000 38. Celtic Woman January 26, 2010 39. Brian Letton 2013 40. Father Ray Kelly December 5, 2014 41. Damien Leith featuring Bing Crosby March 13, 2015 42. Patricia Maguire February 2017.

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