[00:20.70]I wish I was in Carrickfergus,
[00:30.320]Only for nights in Ballygran
[00:39.930]I would swim over the deepest ocean,
[00:50.30]The deepest ocean, for my love to find
[00:59.780]But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over
[01:10.350]Nor have I the wings to fly
[01:20.90]But I wish I could find a handsome boatman
[01:30.140]To ferry me over, to my love and die
[01:39.790]My childhood days bring back sad reflections
[01:50.270]Of happy times I spent so long ago,
[01:59.780]My boyhood friends and my own relations
[02:10.380]Have all passed on now like melting snow.
[02:19.600]But I'll spend my days in endless roaming,
[02:29.640]Soft is the grass, my bed is free.
[02:40.170]Ah, to be back now in Carrickfergus,
[02:50.160]On that long road down to the sea.
[03:20.960]And in Kilkenny, it is reported,
[03:30.610]There are marble stones as black as ink
[03:39.840]With gold and silver I would support her,
[03:50.420]But I'll sing no more 'till I get a drink.
[03:59.670]Sure I'm drunk today, and I'm seldom sober,
[04:10.210]A handsome rover from town to town,
[04:20.350]Ah, but I'm sick now, and my days are numbered,
[04:30.180]So come all you young men and lay me down
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