CARRICKFERGUS

LISTEN!
1. I wish I was in Carrickfergus, only for nights in Ballygrant.
I would swim over the deepest ocean, only for nights in Ballygrant.
But the sea is wide...and I can't swim over...nor have I the wings to fly.
If I could find me a handsome boatsman to ferry me over to my love and die.

2. Now in Kilkenny it is reported, They've marble stones* as black as ink.
With gold and silver I would transport her, But I'll sing no more now till I get a drink.
I'm drunk today, but then I'm seldom sober, A handsome rover from town to town,
Ah, but I'm sick now, my days are over, come all ye young lads and lay me down.
[lay me down, in the grave]

*marble stones: ancient gravestones
Carrickfergus was a thriving seaport when Dublin was still a sandbank.

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