Carrickfergus

[Verse 1] I wished I was in Carrickfergus Only for nights in Ballygrand I would swim over the deepest ocean My love to find But the sea is wide and I can't swim over And neither have I the wings to fly I wish I could find me a handy boatman To ferry me over to my love and die [Verse 2] My childhood days bring back sad reflections Of happy times oh so long ago My boyhood friends and my own relations Have all passed on now like the melting snow So i spend my days in endless roving Soft is the grass and my bed is free But oh to be home now in Carrickfergus On that old road running down to the sea [Verse 3] Now in Kilkenny love is recorded On darkest marble as black as ink With gold and silver I did support her Oh but I'll sing no more now untill I get a drink For i'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober A handsome rover from town to town Oh but I am sick now and my days are numbered Come all you young men and lay me down Come all you young men and lay me down Oh! Come all you young men and lay, me, down Down Please