I've the face of a stranger, with a smile of a rover I'll take a glass at down Kinvarra, and a jug at Oughterard Down the great donkey road to the hills of Connemara To my dark spanish handsome love way down in Galway town Where Jimmy he's my love, he's my joy he's my darling Jimmy leaves me wonder to the ends of the world Jimmy brings me love, gives me hope and sets me dreaming When the leaves are turning, in his arms I'll settle down In Galway town The spring brings the swallow, a fresh land of the rover Where the blushing summer roses shed their petals to the glen And the long breathless evenings, where the loneliness is heaven Makes the dreaming come so easy on the road to Galway town Where Jimmy he's my love, he's my joy he's my darling Jimmy leaves me wonder to the ends of the world Jimmy brings me love, gives me hope and sets me dreaming When the leaves are turning, in his arms I'll settle down In Galway town The curlew are calling, a shy form is prancing The ferns on them bulbing by the thousand gentle eyes All the creatures of Eireann, sing their own sweet songs of pleasure As the rover goes a-whistling down the road to Galway town Where Jimmy he's my love, he's my joy he's my darling Jimmy leaves me wonder to the ends of the world Jimmy brings me love, gives me hope and sets me dreaming When the leaves are turning, in his arms I'll settle down In Galway town Where Jimmy he's my love, he's my joy he's my darling Jimmy leaves me wonder to the ends of the world Jimmy brings me love, gives me hope and sets me dreaming When the leaves are turning, in his arms I'll settle down In Galway town