Carrickfergus - Dermot Kennedy

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 can't swim over

And neither have I the wings to fly

I wish I could find a handy boatman

To ferry me over to my love die

My childhood days bring back sad reflections

Of happy days, so long ago

My boyhood friends and my old relations

Have all passed on now like the melting snow

So spend my days in endless roving

Soft as grass, my bed is free

Oh, to be home now, in Carrickfergus

On the long road down, to the salty sea

And in Kilkenny, it is reported

On marble stone as black as ink

With gold and silver, I did support her

But I sing no more now 'til I get a drink

I'm drunk today, I'm rarely sober

A handsome rover from town to town

Oh, but I'm sick now and my days are numbered

Come all ye young men and lay me down