How Great Thou Art

I have travelled many counties in Ireland

But there's still one I'm longing to see

It has been a part of my homeland

And it brings back sweet memories to me

Where I wandered alone in my childhood

Reviewing the sights I once seen

As I walked through the parks and the forests

'Round the beautiful County of Meath

Oh beautiful Meath, you've got all that I need

Your rivers they flow with delight

The fields are so green, there's plenty to be seen

And your towns are so gay and so bright

Fish down on the Foyle, I remember the time

You would think it was all just a dream

And wherever you roam, there's no place like home

And the beautiful County of Meath

Near Oranmore, in the County Galway

One pleasant evening in the month of May

I spied a damsel, she was young and handsome

Her beauty fairly took my breath away

She wore no jewels, no costly diamonds

No paints or powder, ah no none at all

She wore a bonnet with a ribbon on it

And around her shoulder was a Galway shawl

My feet are here on Broadway, this blessed harvest morn

But all the ache that's in them, for the place where I was born

My weary hands are blistered, from working coal and peat

But oh to swing inside today, to a field of Irish wheat

Had I the chance to wander back, for own a King's abode

I'd sooner see the hawthorn trees down the old bog road

I'd sooner see the hawthorn trees down the old bog road