Song Description

celtic style old fashioned folk song

Lyrics

DONEGAL BAY
BY PETER ANDREWS WITH ADDITIONAL VERSES BY SHANDI SINNAMON

THEY WERE SAILORS, AND BROTHERS BY TRADE
BORN ON THE WIND AND A FISHERMAN'S PAY
BOUND BY SURVIVAL, AND THAT'S WHERE THEY STAYED
ON THE BLUE WATERS OF DONEGAL BAY

THE DAYS WERE YOUNG, HE MET A FAIR GIRL
THEY'D RUN O'ER THE FIELDS,
THEIR HEARTS ALL AWHIRL
HER EYES SHONE LIKE MOONLIGHT
DIAMONDS ON THE SEA
AND EVERY NIGHT, THEY LAY THERE IN DREAM

ANOTHER ROUND FOR YOU LADDIES, THE DAYS BYGONE
A ROUND FOR THE LASSIES, AND ALL WHO'VE SAILED ON
AND OH MY DARLIN', MAY YOU FOREVER STAY
ON THE BLUE WATERS OF DONEGAL BAY

THEY LOVED AND THEY LAUGHED
WITH THE TIES THAT BIND
SHE BORE HIM A LAD AND A LASS FAIR AND KIND
AS HIS NETS SOARED THE BAY,
EVERYDAY SHE WOULD PRAY
FOR ALL THE SAILORS ON DONEGAL BAY

CHORUS:

EARLY ONE MORNING AS HE TROLLED THE SEA
IN THE MISTS SHE CAME A CALLIN', HER SPIRIT SET FREE
HE RUSHED TO THE SHORE BUT THEY SAID SHE WAS GONE
HIS BEAUTIFUL DREAMER, IN THE ARMS OF THE DAWN.