Carrickfergus

I wish I was in Carrickfergus

Only for nights in Ballygrand

I would swim over the deepest ocean

Only for nights in Ballygrand

But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over

And neither have I the wings to fly

I wish I had a handsome boatsman

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 past on now like melting snow

And I've spend my days in seamless roving

Soft is the grass and my bed is free

Ah to be back 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 would support her

But I'll sing no more now 'til I get a drink

Cause 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 young men and lay me down