The Galway Rover

I've the face of a stranger with a smile of a rover

I'll take a glass at down Kinvara and a jug at Oughterard

Down the great donkey roads though the hills of Connemara

To my dark Spanish handsome love way down in Galway town

Chorus (after each verse):

Where Jimmy is me love, he's me pride, he's me darling

Jimmy leaves me wander to the ends of the world

Jimmy brings me love, gives me hope and sets me dreaming

And when the leaves are turning, in his arms I'll settle down in Galway town

The spring brings the swallow, a fresh land of the rover

Where the blushing summer roses shed their petals to the glen

And the long breathless evenings where the loneliness is heaven

Makes the dreaming come so easy on the road to Galway town

The curlew are calling, a shy form is prancing

All the ferns on them bulbing by the thousand gentle eyes

All the creatures of Eireann sing their own sweet songs of pleasure

As the rover goes a-whistling down the road to Galway town

Where he's me love, he's me pride, he's me darling

Jimmy leaves me wander to the ends of the world

Jimmy brings me love, gives me hope and sets me dreaming

And when the leaves are turning, in his arms I'll settle down in Galway town

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