Carrickfergus

Carrickfergus - Brian Kennedy

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 can not swim over

Nor have I the wings to fly

But I wish I could find 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 is the grass my bed is free

Ah to be back now 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

Sure I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober

A handsome rover from town to town

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

So come all you young men and lay me down

So come all you young men and lay me down