Carrickfergus

Traditional Irish Folk Song

Performed by Darren Holden
Performed by The Dubliners

I wish I was in Carrickfergus Only for nights in Ballygran I would swim over the deepest ocean The deepest ocean for my love to find But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over And neither have I wings to fly If I could find me a handsome boatman To ferry me over my love and I. My childhood days bring a sad reflection Of happy times spent long ago My boyhood friends and my relations Have all passed on now like melting snow

But I spend my days in endless roving Soft is the grass, 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 There on marble stones as black as ink With gold and silver I would support her But I'll sing no more now till I get a drink 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 numbered Come all ye young men and lay me down.