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I wish I was in Carrickfergus |
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I would swim over the deepest ocean |
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But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over |
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If I could find me a handsome boatman |
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To ferry me over over to my love and I |
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My childhood days bring back sad reflections |
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Of happy time there spent so long ago |
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[]02:09My boyhood friends and my own relations |
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Have all passed on now like the melting snow |
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So I'll spend my days in this endless roving |
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Soft is the grass and shore my bed is free |
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But to be home now in carrickfergus |
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On the long road down to the salty sea |
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And in Kilkenny there it is reported |
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On marble stone there as black as ink |
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With gold and silver I would support her |
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But I'll sing no more now till I get a drink |
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For I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober |
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The handsome rover from town to town |
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Ah but I am sick now my days are numbered |
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so come here young men and lay me down |
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Only for nights in Ballygrand |
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the deepest ocean for my love to find |
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And neither have I the wings to fly |