This version of GALWAY BAY was done by the Clancys and Tommy Makem at their great Carnegie Hall concert in the 1980s. You can plug in any beer or ale or stout or porter you might prefer in verse #2.

Maybe someday I'll go back again to Ireland
If my dear old wife would only pass away.
She nearly drives me daft with all her naggin'.
She's got a mouth as big as Galway Bay.

See her drinkin' 16 pints of Pabst Blue Ribbon,
And then she can walk home without a sway.
If the sea were beer instead of salty water,
She would live and die in Galway Bay.

See her drinkin' 16 pints of Padgo Murphy's.
When the barman says "I think it's time to go,"
She doesn't try to speak to him in Gaelic,
But a language that the clergy do not know.

On her back she has tattooed a map of Ireland,
And when she takes her bath on Saturday,
She rubs the Sunlight Soap around by Claddaugh,
Just to watch the suds roll down on Galway Bay!