Ireland - Tom Paxton

I met you on the beach in June

The bonfire burning bright

Friend of friends I’d known for years

Another summer night

You made room beside you there

Your toes dug in the sand

That distant summer when I found you and you

Found Ireland

The bonfire died, I drove you home

Sometime around three or four

We sat outside and talked and talked

Another hour or more

When you got up to go inside

I had our summer planned

That’s when you said that you were leavin' that night

For Ireland

I hung around the beach that week

But nothing felt the same

And tryin' to get started

Was another losin' game

And why I felt so out of things

I could not understand

I only knew that you were gone;

you were

In Ireland

I sold my car in Providence

To buy a roundtrip fare

And off I flew to Ireland

And hoped I’d see you there

They knew in O’Donoghue’s

Where you’d sung with the band

That distant summer when I found you and you

Found Ireland

They said you’d gone to Galway

Then you’d hitched to Donegal

McGrory’s up in Culdaff

Was where you could hear it all

Arlo was on the stage

When I slipped in and took your hand

That distant summer when I found you and we

Found Ireland

I fell in love with Ireland

I fell in love with you

And when you said you felt the same, well

What else could I do

Now all these years of lovin' you

Has all been some sweet command

It’s summer now and once again we’ll go

Find Ireland

It’s summer now and once again we’ll go

Find Ireland