Galway Bay Chords
by Celtic Woman
Galway Bay by Celtic Woman is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: D
D A
If you ever go across the sea to ireland,
A D
Then maybe at the closing of your day,
D E
You can sit and watch the moon rise over claddagh,
A D
And see the sun go down on galway bay.
D A
Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream,
A D
The women in the meadow making hay,
D E
Just to sit beside the turf fire in a cabin,
A D
And watch the barefoot gosoons as they play
D
For the breezes blowing o'er the sea's from
A
ireland,
A D
Are perfumed by the heather as they blow,
D E
And the women in the uplands digging praties
A
Speak a language that the strangers do not
D
Know.
D
Yet the strangers came and tried to teach u
A
S their ways,
A
And they scorned us just for being what we
D
Are,
D
But they might as well go chasin after moon
E
beams,
A D
Or light a penny candle from a star.
D A
And if there's gonna be a life here after,
A D
And somehow i'm sure there's gonna be,
D E
I will ask my god to let me make my heaven,
E D
In that dear land across the irish sea.
D E
I will ask my god to let me make my heaven,
E D
In my dear land across the irish sea.