Near Oranmore, in the County Galway, one pleasant evening in the month of May.
I saw a damsel, she was fair and handsome and her beauty nearly took my breath away.
She wore no jewels, no costly diamonds, no paint nor powder, no none at all.
She wore a bonnet, with ribbons on it, and round her shoulder was the Galway Shawl.
As we kept on walking, we kept on talking, till her father's cottage came into view.
She said, "Come in sir, and meet my father, and for to please him play 'The Foggy Dew.'"
I played "The Blackbird," "The Stack of Barley," "Rodney's Glory," and "The Foggy Dew."
She sang each note like an Irish linnet whilst tears they crawled in her eyes of blue.
'Twas early early all in the morning when I hit the road for Old Donegal.
She cried and kissed me and said, "Goodbye sir."
But my heart remains with the Galway Shawl.
She wore no jewels, no costly diamonds, no paint nor powder, no none at all.
She wore a bonnet, with ribbons on it, and round her shoulder was the Galway Shawl.
And round her shoulder was the Galway Shawl!
I saw a damsel, she was fair and handsome and her beauty nearly took my breath away.
She wore no jewels, no costly diamonds, no paint nor powder, no none at all.
She wore a bonnet, with ribbons on it, and round her shoulder was the Galway Shawl.
As we kept on walking, we kept on talking, till her father's cottage came into view.
She said, "Come in sir, and meet my father, and for to please him play 'The Foggy Dew.'"
I played "The Blackbird," "The Stack of Barley," "Rodney's Glory," and "The Foggy Dew."
She sang each note like an Irish linnet whilst tears they crawled in her eyes of blue.
'Twas early early all in the morning when I hit the road for Old Donegal.
She cried and kissed me and said, "Goodbye sir."
But my heart remains with the Galway Shawl.
She wore no jewels, no costly diamonds, no paint nor powder, no none at all.
She wore a bonnet, with ribbons on it, and round her shoulder was the Galway Shawl.
And round her shoulder was the Galway Shawl!
Other albums by the artist
20 Best Loved Irish Songs from Ireland
2000 · album
Portrait
1998 · album
Celebration
1994 · album
The Eclectic
2019 · album
The Mirror on the Wall
2018 · album
Into the Cauldron
2017 · album
Johnny McEvoy: The Stable Sessions
2016 · album
1916 Easter Rising (Commemorative Collection)
2016 · album
Basement Sessions 2
2015 · album
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