Carrickfergus - Celtic Thunder, Ryan Kelly

I wish I was in Carrickfergus

Only for nights now 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 the wings to fly

If I could find me a lonesome boatman

To ferry me over my love and I

My childhood days bring back sad reflections

Of happy times I spent so long ago

My boyhood friends and my own relations

Have all passed on now like the melted snow

So I’ll spend my days in endless roving

Soft is the grass my bed is free

Ah, to be home now in Carrickfergus

On that long road down to the sea

And 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 till I get a drink

For I’m drunk today sure I’m seldom sober

A handsome rover from town to town

Ah but I’m sick now and my days are numbered

Come all ye young men and lay me down