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I wish I was in Carrickfergus
Only for nights in Ballygrand
I would swim over the deepest ocean
The deepest ocean my love to find
But the sea is wide and I can’t swim over
And nor have I the wings to fly
If I could find me a handy boatman
To ferry me over to my love and die

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

And in Kilkenny it is reported
In 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
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 you young men and lay me down