Well, I took a stroll on the old long walk of the day I met a little girl and we stopped to talk on a fine soft day And I asked your friend what's a fella to do If her hair's black and her eyes are blue Well, I knew right then I'd be takin' a whirl On the Song Hill farm with a Galway girl We were halfway there when the rain came down on the day I ate She asked me up to her flat downtown on a fine soft day And I asked your friend what's a fella to do If her hair was black and her eyes were blue Well, I took her hand and I gave her a twirl Then I lost my heart to a Galway girl Now when I woke up I was all alone With a broken heart and a ticket home So I ask you now, tell me what would you do If her hair was black and her eyes were blue Well, I've traveled around, seen a lot of this world Boys, I'll tell you right now I've never seen nothing like a Galway girl She took my heart She broke it