[Verse]
They say that the lakes of Killarney are fair,
No stream like the Liffey could ever compare,
If it's water you want you'll find nothing more rare,
Than the stuff they make down by the ocean.
[Chorus]
The sea, oh, the sea, the grá geal mo chroí,
Long may it stay between England and me,
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free,
Thank God we're surrounded by water.
[Verse]
Tom Moore made his waters, meet fame and renown,
A great lover of anything dressed in a crown,
In brandy the bandy old Saxon he'd drown,
But throw ne'er a one into the ocean.
[Chorus]
The sea, oh, the sea, the grá geal mo chroí,
Long may it stay between England and me,
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free,
Thank God we're surrounded by water.
[Verse]
The Scots have their whiskey, the Welsh have their speech,
Their poets are paid about tenpence a week,
Provided no hard words on England they speak,
Oh, Lord, what a price for devotion.
[Chorus]
The sea, oh, the sea, the grá geal mo chroí,
Long may it stay between England and me,
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free,
Thank God we're surrounded by water.
[Verse]
The Danes came to Ireland with nothing to do,
But dream of the plundered old Irish they slew,
"Well your willing your Vikings", says Brian Boru,
And threw them back into the ocean.
[Chorus]
The sea, oh, the sea, the grá geal mo chroí,
Long may it stay between England and me,
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free,
Thank God we're surrounded by water.
[Verse]
Two foreign old monarchs in battle did join,
Each wanting their head on the back of a coin
If the Irish had sense they'd drown both in the Boyne,
And partition throw into the ocean.
[Chorus]
The sea, oh, the sea, the grá geal mo chroí,
Long may it stay between England and me,
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free,
Thank God we're surrounded by water.
[Chorus]
The sea, oh, the sea, the grá geal mo chroí,
Long may it stay between England and me,
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free,
Thank God we're surrounded by water.