Galway

I want to take you to the west coast of Ireland

To Galway to play in the spray and the sea

I’ve dreamed about you, yes, that’s what he told me He said, I will take you if you’ll come with me

I laughed and I said now you wait just a minute

There’s somebody else I am fighEng with now

I’ve seen my future and you aren’t in it But I’ll let you know if it changes somehow

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We know the winds of Eme hold a mystery Who knows the workings of fate and of desEny?

We look back on it and see that it’s history now

A couple months later, I saw him again, he was

Across the room at the bar in a crowd I said hello, and he said without warning I’ll take you to Galway, he said this out loud.

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Somebody else took up my hand that night

Whispered, he’s too young, as though he had that right

So Mr. Galway he faded from view

And the other man took up the game for to woo

Months aPer that, across the whole country

In a hotel hallway I went for some ice

I saw a man and his face was familiar

My eyes met his, and I stared at him twice

I said is it you? And he said, it is me

He said I am asking again if you’re free

Well you won’t believe this but I’m to be wed, I said

I’m so sorry not to share your bed

So I can’t join you for the spray and the sea

Or the romance of Galway there waiEng for me

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Now I tease my daughter and some Emes I say

Your dad could have been Irish but he’s not. Anyway,

SomeEmes at night in my dreams I do hear

The spray and the gray of Galway so near

And the roar of the sea, and the things that could be

And I will take you if you’ll come with me

Yes I will take you if you’ll come with me