Carrickfergus

I wish I was in Carrickfergus

Only for nights in Ballygrand

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 over to my love and I

My childhood days bring back sad reflections

Of happy time there spent so long ago

Have all passed on now like the melting snow

So I'll spend my days in this endless roving

Soft is the grass and shore my bed is free

But to be home now in carrickfergus

On the long road down to the salty sea

And in Kilkenny there 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

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

The handsome rover from town to town

Ah but I am sick now my days are numbered

so come here young men and lay me down