In the fall of the year

She flew across the ocean

To Ireland, the land of her fathers

When we said goodbye, a tear was in her eye

I lost her then and there, my Irish angel



The first letter came, she said she loved it there

And now how she wished I was now with her

She wrote it on the hill, in the gentle Irish rain

I saw her in my mind, my Irish angel

I wrote her back and then

There was no second letter

Just the silence of the storm that fell around me

I let her down, I know

The day I let her go

She's found someone else, my Irish angel



When I first saw her, my heart went into spinning

When they speak of love they call it falling

It was like I held my breath until I laid eyes on her again

Too beautiful, she was my Irish angel

When aI stolen glance led to a stolen kiss

I thought I knew the chance that I was takin

And though I've never known a love as strong as this

And what it was to feel my own heart breaking



So now I raise a glass and then I raise another

One to forget and one to remember

Oh I wanted just to dream the way things could have been

If I hadn't lost my Irish angel