The Galway Rover - Cherish The Ladies

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

I'll take a glass at down Kinvarra, and a jug at

Oughterard

Down the great donkey road to the hills of Connemara

To my dark spanish handsome

love way down in Galway town

Where Jimmy he's my love,

he's my joy he's my darling

Jimmy leaves me wonder

to the ends of the world

Jimmy brings me love,

gives me hope and sets me dreaming

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

Where Jimmy he's my love,

he's my joy he's my darling

Jimmy leaves me wonder to

the ends of the world

Jimmy brings me love,

gives me hope and sets me dreaming

When the leaves are turning,

in his arms I'll settle down

In Galway town

The curlew are calling, a shy form is prancing

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 Jimmy he's my love,

he's my joy he's my darling

Jimmy leaves me wonder to

the ends of the world

Jimmy brings me love,

gives me hope and sets me dreaming

When the leaves are turning,

in his arms I'll settle down

In Galway town

Where Jimmy he's my love,

he's my joy he's my darling

Jimmy leaves me wonder to

the ends of the world

Jimmy brings me love,

gives me hope and sets me dreaming

When the leaves are turning,

in his arms I'll settle down

In Galway town