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Steve Earle, The Galway Girl (2000)
 Key: :[C#] (w: Steve Earle)
INTRO: [C#] [C#]

VERSE 1:
Well, I [C#] took a stroll on the old long walk, on a day -I-[G#]-ay-I-[F#]-ay
I [C#] met a little [G#] girl and we [F#] stopped to [C#] talk, on a fine soft [F#] day-I-[C#]-ay

CHORUS:
And I [F#] ask you, [C#*] friend, what's a [F#] fella to [C#*] do?
'Cause her [A#m] hair was [G#] black, and her [F#] eyes were [C#*] blue
And I [F#] knew right [C#*] then, I'd be [F#] takin' a [C#*] whirl
'Round the [A#m] Salthill [G#] Prom, with a [F#] Galway [C#*] girl

INSTRUMENTAL 1:
[C#] [C#] // [F#] [C#]
^[F#]^[C#]^[G#]^[C#] // [G#] ^[F#] [C#]

VERSE 2:
[C#] We were halfway there when the rain came down, on a day -I-[G#]-ay-I-[F#]-ay
And she [C#] asked me [G#] up to her [F#] flat down [C#] town, on a fine soft [F#] day-I-[C#]-ay

CHORUS 2:
And I [F#] ask you, [C#*] friend, what's a [F#] fella to [C#*] do?
'Cause her [A#m] hair was [G#] black, and her [F#] eyes were [C#*] blue
So I [F#] took her [C#*] hand, and I [F#] gave her a [C#*] twirl
And I [A#m] lost my [G#] heart, to a [F#] Galway [C#*] girl

REPEAT INSTRUMENTAL 1: [x2]

INSTRUMENTAL 2:
[F#] [F#] // [C#] [G#]
^[F#]^[C#]^[G#]^[C#] // [G#] ^[F#] [C#]

BRIDGE:
When [C#] I woke up I was all alone [F#]
With a [C#] broken [G#] heart and a [F#] ticket [C#] home

CHORUS 3:
And I [F#] ask you [C#*] now, tell me [F#] what would you [C#*] do
If her [A#m] hair was [G#] black, and her [F#] eyes were [C#*] blue
'Cause I've [F#] travelled [C#*] around, I've been all [F#] over this [C#*] world
Boys I [A#m] ain't never seen [G#] nothin', like a [F#] Galway [C#*] girl

REPEAT INSTRUMENTAL 1: [x3] // [C# open]

ADDITIONAL INFO:

[C#*]=[C#] ^[C#sus4]^[C#]

"Galway Girl" is written by American singer-songwriter Steve Earle and recorded with Irish musician Sharon Shannon;
"The Galway Girl" tells the semi-autobiographical story of the songwriter's reaction to a beautiful black-haired blue-eyed girl he meets in Galway.
A version by Mundy and Sharon Shannon became the most downloaded song of 2008 in Ireland; it has gone on to become the eighth highest selling single in Irish chart history.
The song was written about Joyce Redmond; Redmond plays the bodhrán on Steve Earle's version of the song. Earle met Redmond in Galway. Redmond is from Howth, County Dublin.

NOTE: The "ADDITIONAL INFO" section shows information based on the original song key only, and may not be modified when transposing.


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