I wished I want you in

Carrickfergus

Only for nights in ballygrand

I would swim over the

Deepest ocean

The deepest ocean to

Be by your side

But the sea is wide and

I can't swim over

And neither have I wings to fly

I wish I could find me

A handy boatman

To ferry me over to my

Love and die

My childhood days bring

Back sad reflections

Of happy days so long ago

My boyhood friends and

My own relations

Have all passed on like

The melting snow

So Ill spend my days

In endless roving

Soft is the grass and

My bed is free

Oh 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 did support her

But Ill sing no more

Now till I get a drink

I'm drunk today and I'm rarely sober

A handsome rover from town to town

Oh but I am sick now

And my days are numbered

Come all ye young men

And lay me down