Carrickfergus - Live

I wished I had 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 times so long ago
 My girlhood friends and my own relations
 Have all passed on like the melting snow
 So I'll 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 black as ink
 With gold and silver I did support her
 But I'll sing no more 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