Galway Shawl

[Verse 1]
In Oranmore in the county Galway
One fine evenin' in the month of May
I spied a colleen, she was tall and handsome
And she nearly stole my heart away

[Verse 2]
She wore no jewels or no costly diamonds
And for silken stockings she had none at all
She wore a bonnet with a ribbon on it
And on her shoulders clung a Galway shawl

[Verse 3]
We walked together, and we talked together
'Til her father's cottage, it came into view
She asked me in for to meet her father
And to sing for him "The Foggy Dew'"

[Verse 4]
She sat me down beside the fire
Beside her father who was six-foot tall
Her mother soon, she had the kettle boilin'
But all I thought of was the Galway shawl

[Verse 5]
I sang "The Black Bird" and "The Stack of Barley"
"The Dark-Eyed Sailor" and "The Foggy Dew"
She had each note fare like an Irish linnet
And the tears they came into those eyes of blue

[Verse 6]
Early next mornin' I was on the high road
Bound to travel homeward over Donegal
But as I wandered thoughts strayed wildly from me
Dwellin' with a maiden in the Galway shawl

[Verse 7]
So all young men from me take warnin'
Never love a maiden be she short or tall
She'll wander with you in the roads of mornin'
She'll steal your heart in her Galway shawl