Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Killybegs Lyrics
My heart was warm with family love as I slipped into a chairBeside my uncle john, my daughters cross the table thereId walked the docks in misty rain, a pain was in my legsBut Id seen the dream of kinsmen in the boats of killybegsThe banter of my uncle and my daughters filled the air and the gunning brothers? next to us were glad that we were thereI was kind of quiet listening at the window ledgeFor the music of the harbor, the birds of killybegsDown the coast not far was galway land of joys and kinnamar? at their supper and asleep we would visit? there tomorrowI worried if my words would eer be sung by irishmenOr out here on the docks? ?Like the fish of killybegsA radio was playing though we never heard a wordBut the rhythm of the music was familiar if absurd and harkning intensity? for silence did I begOh what a song was playing in the air of killybegsI couldnt quite believe it for it sounded rather strangeThe instruments were different and the key had been changedI reached to turn the volume up then teetered on my legsA girl from tipperary sang my song in killybegs
