Galway Shawl

In Oranmore, the County Galway

One pleasant evening in the month of may,

I spied a colleen, she was young and handsome,

Her beauty fairly took my breath away.

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She wore no jewels, no costly diamonds,

No paint, No powder, No none at all,

She wore a bonnet with ribbons on it,

And round her shoulders wore a Galway shawl.

 

We went a walking, she kept on talking,

Her Father`s cottage came into view.

Said She "Come in Sir and meet me Father,

And for to please him play the Foggy Dew.

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I played the Blackbird, The Stacks of Barley,

Sir Rodney`s Glory, and the Foggy Dew.

She sang each note sir like a Irish Linnet,

And the tears rolled down from her eyes so blue.

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Twas early, early, Oh in the morning,

I took the road down towards Donegal,

And she was crying, Oh as I left her,

But my heart remains with that Galway Shawl.

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