Song For Ireland

Walking all the day, near tall towers
 where falcons build their nests
 Silver winged they fly,
 they know the call of freedom in their breasts
 Saw Black Head against the sky
 where twisted rocks they run down to the sea
 Living on your western shore,
 saw summer sunsets, asked for more
 I stood by your Atlantic sea
 and sang a song for Ireland
 Drinking all the day in old pubs
 where fiddlers love to play
 Someone touched the bow,
 he played a reel
 it seemed so fine and gay
 Stood on Dingle beach
 and cast in wild foam we found Atlantic bass
 Living on your western shore,
 saw summer sunsets asked for more
 I stood by your Atlantic sea
 and sang a song for Ireland
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 Talking all the day with true friends
 who try to make you stay
 Telling jokes and news,
 singing songs to pass the night away
 Watched the Galway salmon run
 like silver dancing darting in the sun
 Living on your western shore
 saw summer sunsets, asked for more
 I stood by your Atlantic sea
 and sang a song for Ireland
 Dreaming in the night I saw a land
 where no man had to fight
 Waking in your dawn
 I saw you crying in the morning light
 Lying where the falcons fly,
 they twist and turn all in you e'er blue sky
 Living on your western shore,
 saw summer sunsets asked for more
 I stood by your Atlantic sea
 and sang a song for Ireland