[00:22]I wish I was in Carrickfergus Only for nights in Ballygrand [00:43]I would swim over the deepest ocean the deepest ocean for my love to find [01:05]But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over And neither have I wings to fly [01:27]If I could find me a handsome boatman [01:38]To ferry me over over to my love and I [01:49]My childhood days bring back sad reflections [02:01]Of happy time there spent so long ago [02:22]Have all passed on now like the melting snow [02:34]So I'll spend my days in this endless roving [02:43]Soft is the grass and shore my bed is free [02:54]But to be home now in carrickfergus [03:06]On the long road down to the salty sea [03:16]And in Kilkenny there it is reported [03:26]On marble stone there as black as ink [03:37]With gold and silver I would support her [03:48]But I'll sing no more now till I get a drink [03:59]For I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober [04:10]The handsome rover from town to town [04:21]Ah but I am sick now my days are numbered [04:31]so come here young men and lay me down [04:45]
[00:22]I wish I was in Carrickfergus [00:33.5]Only for nights in Ballygrand [00:43]I would swim over the deepest ocean [00:54.5]the deepest ocean for my love to find [01:05]But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over [01:16.5]And neither have I wings to fly [01:27]If I could find me a handsome boatman [01:38]To ferry me over over to my love and I [01:49]My childhood days bring back sad reflections [02:01]Of happy time there spent so long ago [02:22]Have all passed on now like the melting snow [02:34]So I'll spend my days in this endless roving [02:43]Soft is the grass and shore my bed is free [02:54]But to be home now in carrickfergus [03:06]On the long road down to the salty sea [03:16]And in Kilkenny there it is reported [03:26]On marble stone there as black as ink [03:37]With gold and silver I would support her [03:48]But I'll sing no more now till I get a drink [03:59]For I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober [04:10]The handsome rover from town to town [04:21]Ah but I am sick now my days are numbered [04:31]so come here young men and lay me down [04:45]
