Carrickfergus (Jim McCann with the Dubliners).

I think this is fantastic. 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 If I could find me a handsome boatman To ferry me over my love and I My childhood days bring back sad reflections Of happy time there spent so long ago My boyhood friends and my own relations Have all passed on now like the melting snow So I?ll spend my days in this endless roving Soft is the grass and shore my bed is free But to be home now in carrickfergus On the long road down to the salty 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 and I’m seldom sober The handsome rover from town to town Ah but I am sick now my days are numbered Come all me young men and lay me down