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