Carrickfergus

I wished I was in Carrickfergus

Only for nights in Ballygrand

I would swim over the deepest ocean

My love to find

But the sea is wide and I can't swim over

And neither have I the wings to fly

I wish I could find me a handy boatman

To ferry me over to my love and die

My childhood days bring back sad reflections

Of happy times oh so long ago

My boyhood friends and my own relations

Have all passed on now like the melting snow

So i spend my days in endless roving

Soft is the grass and my bed is free

But oh to be home now in Carrickfergus

On that old road running down to the sea

Now in Kilkenny love is recorded

On darkest marble as black as ink

With gold and silver I did support her

Oh but I'll sing no more now untill I get a drink

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

A handsome rover from town to town

Oh but I am sick now and my days are numbered

Come all you young men and lay me down

Come all you young men and lay me down

Oh!

Come all you young men and lay, me, down

Down

Please