Spring Comes To Spiddal

         C                                  F              C
Well the lights are on in Standun's and the spell has been broken
   Am        C       G             G7
The roadside teahouse door is wide open
  C                       F             C
A sign on the wall says, "American also spoken"
               D   C
As spring comes to Spiddal

    C                        F                C
The village girls go walking by without their coats
    Am           C           G                G7
The Irish Gaelic college is alive again with folk
C                         F                C
Farmers gather talking freed from Winter's yoke
               D   C
As spring comes to Spiddal

  G              C               G             C
A tourist with a telescope and a funny looking German bloke
      F          C                             G
And a billy goat all invoke the summer soon to bloom

     C                             F              C
On a soft and fresh Atlantic air a mist of pollen floats
   Am           C           D               G
On Galway Bay I spy a gaily painted fishing boat
          C                               F             C
There's a rustle around the boreens and a song on every throat
               D   C
As spring comes to Spiddal

C F C
Am C G
C F C
D C