Dermot Kennedy

Carrickfergus (Live)
I wish I was in Carrickfergus Only for nights in Ballygrand I would swim over the deepest ocean The deepest ocean, for 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 a handy boatman To ferry me over to my love die My childhood days bring back sad reflections Of happy days, so long ago My boyhood friends and my old relations Have all passed on now like the melting snow So spend my days in endless roving Soft as grass, 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 rеported On marble stone as black as ink With gold and silvеr, I did support her But I sing no more now 'til I get a drink I'm drunk today, I'm rarely sober A handsome rover from town to town Oh, but I'm sick now and my days are numbered Come all ye young men and lay me down From Letras Mania