The Galaway Shawl - The Corrib Folk

In Oranmore in the County Galway

One pleasant evening in the month of May

I spied a damsel she was young and handsome

Her beauty fairly took my breath away

She wore no jewels or costly diamonds

No paint or powder no none at all

She wore a bonnet with a ribbon on it

And around her shoulders was the Galway shawl

As we kept on walking she kept on talking

Til her father's cottage came into view

She said Come in Sir and meet my father

And play to pleas him The Foggy Dew

She wore no jewels or costly diamonds

No paint or powder no none at all

She wore a bonnet with a ribbon on it

And around her shoulders was the Galway shawl

I played The Blackbirt and "The Stack of Barley

Rodney's Glory and The Foggy Dew

And she sang each note like an Irish linnet

And the tears flowed in her eyes of blue

She wore no jewels or costly diamonds

No paint or powder no none at all

She wore a bonnet with a ribbon on it

And around her shoulders was the Galway shawl

Was early early was in the morning

I hit to the road down for old Donegal

As she was cring

As i left her

And my heart remained with the Galway shawl

She wore no jewels or costly diamonds

No paint or powder no none at all

She wore a bonnet with a ribbon on it

And around her shoulders was the Galway shawl