Carrickfergus lyrics

I wish I was in Carrickfergus

Only for nights in Ballygrant

I would swim over the deepest ocean

Just to see my love before I die

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 carry me over, my love and I.

My childhood days bring back sad reflections

Of happy times I spent so long ago

My boyhood friends and my own relations

Have all gone on now, like the melting snow

But I spend my days in endless roaming

Soft as the grass my bed is free

Oh to be back now in Carrickfergus

On that long road down to the sea

Now in Kilkenny it is reported

On marble stones there as black as ink

With gold and silver I would support her

But I'll sing no more now till I've had a drink

I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober

A handsome rover from town to town

Ah, but I am sick now my days are numbered

Come all you young men and lay me down.