Nils Lofgren - Irish angel lyrics

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 how much she wished I was there with her She wrote it on a hill in a gentle Irish rain I saw her in my mind my Irish angel I wrote her back, but then there was no second letter Just the silence of the snow that fell around me I let her down I know, the day I let her go Now she's found someone else, my Irish angel First time I saw her, my heart went in a spin When they speak of love they call it falling It was like I held my breath, 'till I laid eyes on her again So beautiful she was my Irish angel And when a stolen glance led to a stolen kiss I thought I knew the chance that I was taking But oh I never knew a love as strong as this Or what it was to feel my own heart breaking So now I raise a gla** and then I raise another One to forget, one to remember And one just to dream of how things could have been If I hadn't lost my Irish angel One just to dream of how things could have been If I hadn't lost my Irish angel