Carrickfergus

I Wish I was in Carrickfergus

Only for nights in Ballygran

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 wings to fly

If I could find me a handsome boatman

To ferry me over to my love and die

My childhood days bring back sad reflections

Of happy times I spent so long ago

My boyhood friends and my own relations

Have all passed on now like melting snow

But I'll spend my days in endless roaming

Soft sit the grass my bed is free

Ah, to be back in Carrickfergus

On that long road down to the sea

And in Kilkenny it is reported

There are marble stones as black as ink

With gold and silver I would support her

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

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

So come all, ye young men and lay me down