Carrickfergus

Song Carrickfergus
Artist Loudon Wainwright III
Album Boardwalk Empire Volume 1 (Music From The HBO Original Series)

Lyrics

[00:22] I wish I was in Carrickfergus
[00:43] I would swim over the deepest ocean
[01:05] But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over
[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
[]02:09My boyhood friends and my own relations
[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]
[00:33.5] Only for nights in Ballygrand
[00:54.5] the deepest ocean for my love to find
[01:16.5] And neither have I the wings to fly