The Stars Over Kinvara

Through dark summer nights on his racing bike

Your great granda Miko Killeen

When art classes were done in Galway town

Cycled home the miles between

And the moon overhead

Led him home as he sped

'Til the stars over Kinvara

Said Welcome home

Long before I ran to be your aul man

I dreamed of living here

Where Atlantic waves neath Dunguaire's gaze

Keep the air so fresh and clear

I was 25 when I first laid eyes

On where I knew I'd find

My children's eyes

And the stars over Kinvara

Said Welcome home

That first night I drove you and mammy home

I pulled over in Ballindereen

I just had to pull in. I had never seen

Such a sky of gems that gleamed

Orion was out, and the starry plough

All the night was on display

Over The Burren, the road, and the bay

There were ten more lights that shone

For each one of our own passed on

And I dreamed that Miko too

Was shining down on you

When the stars over Kinvara said Welcome home

When the stars over Kinvara said Welcome home!