Carrickfergus

Song Carrickfergus
Artist Ronan Keating
Album Songs For My Mother

Lyrics

[00:01.45] I wished I was in Carrickfergus'
[00:10.83] Only for nights in Ballygrand'
[00:19.61] I would swim over the deepest ocean'
[00:28.94] The deepest ocean to be by your side.
[00:36.82]
[00:37.99] But the sea is wide and I can't swim over
[00:48.87] And neither have I the wings to fly.
[00:58.92] If I could find me a handy boatman
[01:09.19] To ferry me over to my love and die.
[01:17.06]
[01:19.12] My childhood days bring back sad reflections
[01:29.87] Of happy time spend so long ago.
[01:39.82] My boyhood friends and my own relations.
[01:50.63] Have all passed on like the melting snow.
[01:59.35]
[02:00.55] I'll spend my days in endless roving'
[02:10.67] Soft is the grass and my bed is free.
[02:21.09] Oh to be home now in Carrickfergus'
[02:31.47] On the long road down to the salty sea.
[02:40.14]
[02:41.76] And in Kilkenny it is reported
[02:52.41] On marble stone as black as ink'
[03:02.31] With gold and silver I did support her
[03:12.95] But I'll sing no more now till I get a drink.
[03:21.51]
[03:22.95] For I'm drunk today and I'm rarely sober'
[03:33.66] A handsome rover from town to town.
[03:44.11] Oh but I am sick now and my days are numbered
[03:54.41] so come on ye young men and lay me down."
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