Spring Comes to Spiddal Lyrics

The lights are on in Standun's and a spell has been broken
The roadside teahouse door is wide open
A sign on the wall says "American also spoken"
As spring comes to Spiddal

The village girls go walking by without their coats
The Irish gaelic college is alive again with folk
Farmers gather talking, freed from winter's yoke
As spring comes to Spiddal

A towerist with a telescope
And a funny looking German bloke
And a billy goat
All invoke
The summer soon to bloom...

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

(note. "towerist": scottish for tourist
"boreen": little Irish back road
"Standuns": a towerist shop in Spiddal)

Spiddal March 1988

On "Room To Roam"