Carrickfergus

I wish I was in Carrickfergus
Only for nights in Ballygrand
I would swim over the deepest ocean
The deepest ocean for my love to find
But the sea is wide and I can't swim over
And neither have I the wings to fly
If I could find me a handsome boatman
To ferry me over to my love and die

My childhood days bring sad reflections
Of happy times spent so long ago
My boyhood friends and my own relations
Have all passed on now like the melting snow
But I spend my days in endless roaming
Soft is the grass, my bed is free
Oh to be back now in Carrickfergus
On that long road down to the sea

And in Kilkenny it is reported
A marble stone's 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 and I'm seldom sober
A handsome rover from town to town
But I'm sick now and my days are numbered
So come all ye young men and lay me down