Sunday, May 6, 2012

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.

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