Carrickfergus - - lyrics

Carrickfergus

I wish I was in Carrigfergus
Only for nights in Bally Grant
I would swim over the deepest ocean
Only for nights in Bally Grant

But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over
And neither have I the wings to fly
If I could find me a handsome boatsman
To ferry me over, to my love and die.

My childhood days bring 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 Carrigfergus
On that long road down to the sea.

But in Kilkenny, it is reported
They´ve got marble stones there as black as ink
With gold and silver I would support her
But I'll sing no more 'till I get a drink.

For I'm drunk today, but then I'm seldom sober
A handsome rover from town to town
Ah, but I'm sick now, my days are numbered
Come all you young men and lay me down.