Galway Rover
by Pete St John
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1. I've the face of a stranger, with a smile of a rover
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I'll take a glass at down Kinvarra, and a jug at Oughterard
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Down the great donkey road to the hills of Connemara
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To my dark spanish handsome love way down in Galway town
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Where Jimmy he's my love, he's my pride he's my darling
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Jimmy leaves me wonder to the ends of the world
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Jimmy brings me love, gives me hope and sets me dreaming
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And when the leaves are turning, in his arms I'll settle down
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In Galway town
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2. The spring brings the swallow, a fresh land of the rover
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Where the blushing summer roses shed their petals to the glen
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And the long breathless evenings, where the loneliness is heaven
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Makes the dreaming come so easy on the road to Galway town
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Where Jimmy etc.
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3. The curlew are calling, a shy form is prancing
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All the ferns on them bulbing by the thousand gentle eyes
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All the creatures of Eireann, sing their own sweet songs of pleasure
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As the rover goes a-whistling down the road to Galway town
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Where Jimmy etc.