Carrickfergus - The Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem

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

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 numbered

Come all me young men and lay me down

Come all me young men and lay me down.