It's Sharon Shannon in Monday with Galway Girl.

I took her soul down the old long walk on the day I-e-a-a.

I met a little girl and we stopped to talk when a grand soft day I.

And I ask you, friend, what's the fella to do?

Because her hair was black and her eyes were blue and I knew right then

I'd be taking a whirl down to salt-tailed plum with the Galway girl We're halfway there when the rain came down on the day I-e-I-A-A

And she took me up to a flat downtown when a grand soft day I

And I asked you, friend friend what's a fella to do

because her hair was black and her eyes were blue

so I took her hand and I gave it a twirl

again I lost my heart to look all away girl What?

What? When I woke up I was all alone with a broken heart and a ticket home

And I ask you friends, what would you do

If her hair was black and her eyes were blue

See I traveled around, I've been all over the world Boys I never see nothing like a go away girl Thank you, Sharon.

The track is called The Galway Girl.

It's put out by Sharon Shannon and Mundy,

but many of you know it from one of the more recent Steve Earle albums.

It happened to be written by Earl while he was living in Galway,

writing a book. It was first recorded by by Earl while he was living in Galway, writing a book

who was first recorded by Earl and Shannon in 1999. The song has been gaining in popularity

ever since. As it was reflected earlier last year when it won the most downloaded single

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