Killybegs - Jimmy Ibbotson of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band/Jeff Hanna of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band/The Chieftains/Jimmie Fadden of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band/Béla Fleck

作词：Paddy Moloney

作曲：Jimmy Ibbotson

My heart was warm with family love

As I slipped into a chair

Beside my Uncle John my

Daughters 'cross the table there

I'd walked the docks in misty rain

A pain was in my legs

But I'd seen the dream of

Kinsmen in the boats of Killybegs

The ban'er of my Uncle and

My daughters filled the air

And the Donegalers next to us

Were glad that we were there

I was kind of quite listening

Out the window ledge

For the music of the harbour

The birds of Killybegs

Down the coast not far was Galway

Planned the joys from Connemara

After supper and a sleep

We would be going there tomorra'

I worried if my words would

Ere be sung by Irishmen

Or rot here on the docks

Like the fish of Killybegs

A radio was playin' though

We never heard a word

For the rhythm of the music

Was familiar if absurd

A hearkening intensity for silence did I beg

Oh what a song was playing

In the air of Killybegs

I couldn't quite believe it

For it sounded rather strange

The instruments were different

And the key had been changed

I reached to turn the volume up

Then teeter on my leg

A girl from Tipperary sang

my song in Killybegs