ΜΟΥΣΙΚΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ

ΜΟΥΣΙΚΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ
ΠΩΣ ΕΝΑΣ ΙΡΛΑΝΔΙΚΟΣ ΚΟΛΠΟΣ ΕΓΙΝΕ ΑΠΕΙΡΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙΑ

Galway Bay (Irish: Loch Lurgan or Cuan na Gaillimhe) is a large bay (or sea lough) on the west coast of Ireland, between County Galway in the province of Connacht to the north and the Burren in County Clare in the province of Munster to the south. Galway city is located on the northeast side of the bay. It is about 50 kilometres (30 miles) long and from 10 to 30 kilometres (7 to 20 miles) in breadth. The Aran Islands (Oileáin Árann) are to the west across the entrance and there are numerous small islands within the bay. The approaches to the bay between the Aran Islands and the mainland are as follows; the North Sound (An Súnda ó Thuaidh) lies between Inishmore and Leitir Mealláin in Connemara, it was formerly known as Bealach Locha Lurgan in Irish. Gregory's Sound (Súnda Ghríoghóra) lies between Inishmore and Inishmaan, it was formerly known as Bealach na h-Áite. Foul Sound (An Súnda Salach) lies between Inishmaan and Inisheer, it was formerly known as Bealach na Fearbhaighe. South Sound (An Súnda ó Theas) formerly known as Bealach na Finnise lies between Inisheer and County Clare.

Galway Bay is famous for its unique traditional sailing craft, the Galway Hooker.
[edit] Galway Bay in popular culture
* John Lennon's song "The Luck of the Irish" contains the following lines:

If we could make chains with the morning dew
The world would be like Galway Bay

* Galway Bay is also mentioned in a song performed by Sean Connery in Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People:
Have you ever seen the seagulls
a-flying on to Heaven
or the crimson sails on Galway Bay
the fishermen unfurl?

* Galway Bay is also mentioned in Steve Earle's musical tribute to Townes Van Zandt, "Ft. Worth Blues":
There's a full moon over Galway Bay tonight
Silver light over green and blue
And every place I travel through, I find
Some kinda sign that you've been through

* Earle also mentions Galway and The Long Walk in his song "Galway Girl".

* Galway Bay is also mentioned in Pogues's "Fairytale of New York":
The boys in the NYPD choir
are still singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells are ringing out
For christmas day."

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1. Galway Bay

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 see the sun go down on Galway Bay.
Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream,
The women in the meadow making hay.
Just to sit beside a turf fire in the cabin,
And watch the barefoot gosoons at their play.

For the breezes blowin' o'er the sea from Ireland
Are perfumed by the heather as they blow
And the women in the uplands diggin' praties
Speak a language that the strangers do not know.

Yet the stangers came and tried to teach us their way.
They scorned us just for bein' what we are.
But they might as well go chasing after moon beams,
Or light a penny candle from a star.

And if there's is going to be a life hereafter,
And somehow 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.

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2. Galway Bay

'Tis far away I am today from scenes I roamed a boy,
And long ago the hour I know I first saw Illinois;
But time nor tide nor waters wide could wean my heart away,
For ever true it flies to you, my dear old Galway Bay.


O ! grey and bleak, by shore and creek, the rugged rocks abound,
But sweet and green the grass between, as grows on Irish ground,
So friendship fond, all wealth beyond, and love that lives alway,
Bless each poor home beside your foam, my dear old Galway Bay.


Had I youth's blood and hopeful mood and heart of fire once more,
For all the gold the world might hold I'd never quit your shore,
I'd live content whate'er God sent with neighbours old and gray,
And lay my bones, 'neath churchyard stones, beside you, Galway Bay.

The blessing of a poor old man be with you night and day,
The blessing of a lonely man whose heart will soon be clay;
'Tis all of Heaven I'll ask of God upon my dying day,
My soul to soar for ever more above you, Galway Bay.