Carrickfergus lyrics

I wish I was in Carrickfergus

Only for nights in Ballygrant

I would swim over the deepest ocean,

The deepest ocean for my love to find

But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over

And neither have I the wings to fly

I wish I had a handsome boatman

To ferry me over my love and I

My childhood days bring back sad reflections

Of happy times we spent so long ago

My boyhood friends and my own relations

Have all passed on now like melting snow.

So I'll spend my days in ceaseless roving

Soft is the grass; my bed is free

Oh, to be home now in Carrickfergus

On that long winding road down to the sea

Now in Kilkenny, it is reported

On marble stones there as black as ink

With gold and silver, I did support her

But I'll sing no more till I get a drink.

And I'm drunk today, and I'm seldom sober

A handsome rover from town to town

Ah, but I'm sick now, my days are numbered

Come all ye young men and lay me down.

Come all ye young men and lay me down.