Carrickfergus

Carrickfergus - Jim McCann

Written by：Ronan Hardiman

I wish I was in Carboniferous

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 there spent so long ago

My boyhood friends and my own relations

Have all past on now life melting snow

I like spend my days in endless roving

Soft is the grass and my bed is free

Oh to be back now in Carboniferous

On that long wounding rode down to the sea

Now in Kilkenny it is reported

On marble stone there as black as ink

With gold and silver I would support her

But I'll sing no more now till 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 number

Come all me young men and lay me down