The Sea Arround Us Songtext
von The Dubliners

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 get nothing more rare
Than the stuff they make down by the ocean

The sea, oh the sea, oh a gradh geal mo chroide
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

Tom Moore made his waters by 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 in the ocean

The sea, oh the sea, oh a gradh geal mo chroide
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


The Scots have their whiskey, the Welsh have their speech
Their poets are paid about ten pence a week
Provided no hard word on England they speak
Oh Lord what a price for devotion

The sea, oh the sea, oh a gradh geal mo chroide
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

The Danes came to Ireland with nothing to do
But dream of the plundered old Irish they slew
'Well you will in your Vikings' said Brain Boru
Then he threw them back into the ocean

The sea, oh the sea, oh a gradh geal mo chroide
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

Two foreign old monarchs in battle did join
Each wanting his 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


The sea, oh the sea, oh a gradh geal mo chroide
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