The Ocean between us © Tony Fallon012918.

The Ocean between us © Tony Fallon012918.

The Atlantic Ocean is between us just three thousand miles

A place just outside Thurles Ireland west of the British Isles

But there is more than three thousand miles between

The Mayo barman in New York and his Tipperary Queen

If the only thing was water that was keeping me at bay

I’d be back home in the morning in Tipperary so far away

My buddies and I were touring and were in a bar one night

I spied the maid behind the bar it was true love at first sight

What an incredible family they were like a loving mob

And I loved them even more when the father offered me a job

Well I never went back to Mayo next year she was my bride

My mother came from Achill and like all mothers she cried

Things were going so well until one night I drank poteen

Sometime after midnight who showed up but my sister in law Jean

I don’t know what questions I asked I don’t know what I said

But when I woke next morning I was in the wrong sister’s bed

This guaranteed a family row and all options were discussed

She said if you couldn’t even trust us two who could she trust

I suggested I be banished for a while to Dublin or Cork

She said Dublin wouldn’t be far enough but how about New York

So now I’m a block away for Broadway living the life of a monk

With my beautiful bride in Ireland I don’t trust myself to get drunk

I don’t know how long will be my exile but I’m full of remorse

And I know she’ll forgive me because she doesn’t believe in divorce