Carrickfergus

I wish I was in Carrickfergus

Only for nights in Ballygrand

I would swim over the deepest ocean

The deepest ocean my love to find

But the water is wide I cannot swim over

And neither have I wings to fly

If I could find a handsome boatman

To ferry me over to my love and die

My childhood days bring sad reflections

Of happy times spent long ago

My boyhood friends and my own relations

Have passed and gone now like melting snow

But I'll spend my days in endless roaming

Soft is the grass and 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

A marble stone there as black as ink

With gold and silver I would support her

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

I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober

A handsome rover from town to town

Ah but I am sick now, my days are numbered

So come all you young men and lay me down

Come all you young men and lay me down