[03:36.51]I wished I had you in Carrickfergus
[03:37.32]Only for nights in Ballygrand
[03:38.04]I would swim over the deepest ocean
[03:38.91]The deepest ocean to be by your side
[03:39.75]But the sea is wide and I can't swim over
[03:40.65]And neither have I wings to fly
[03:41.31]I wish I could find me a handy boatman
[03:42.15]To ferry me over to my love and die
[03:43.05]My childhood days bring back sad reflections
[03:44.10]Of happy times so long ago
[03:44.70]My girlhood friends and my own relations
[03:45.48]Have all passed on like the melting snow
[03:46.29]So I'll spend my days in endless roving
[03:47.25]Soft is the grass and my bed is free
[03:48.09]Oh to be home now in Carrickfergus
[03:48.87]On the long road down to the salty sea
[03:50.07]And in Kilkenny it is reported
[03:50.94]On marble stone there black as ink
[03:51.87]With gold and silver I did support her
[03:52.77]But I'll sing no more till I get a drink
[03:53.67]I'm drunk today and I'm rarely sober
[03:54.54]A handsome rover from town to town
[03:55.32]Oh but I am sick now and my days are numbered
[03:56.25]Come all ye young men and lay me down