Carrickfergus Lyrics - The Dubliners Essential Collection - Dubliners

I wish I was in Carrickfergus 

Only for nights in Ballygrand 

I would swim over the deepest ocean 

Only for nights in Ballygrand 

But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over 

And neither have I the wings to fly 

I wish I had a handsome boatsman 

To ferry me over my love and I 

(This verse is only sung on the 40 years cd) 

My childhood days bring back sad reflections 

Of happy times there spent so long ago 

My boyhood friends and my own relations 

Have all past on now with the melting snow 

So I'll spend my days in this endless roving 

Soft is the grass and shore, my bed is free 

Oh to be home now in carrickfergus 

On the long rode down to the salty sea 

Now in Kilkenny 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 til I get a drink 

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

A handsome rover from town to town 

Ah but I'm sick now my days are number 

Come all me young men and lay me down 

Come all me young men and lay me down.