Carrickfergus tab by The Stillwater Hobos

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I wish I was in Carrickfergus
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Only for nights in Ballygrand
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I would swim over the deepest ocean
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Only for nights in Ballygrand
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But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over
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And neither have I the wings to fly
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I wish I had a handsome boatman
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To ferry me over my love and I.

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My childhood days bring back sad 'flections
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Of happy days so long ago
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My boyhood friends and my own relations
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Have all passed away now like melting snow
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So I'll spend my days in endless roving
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Soft is the grass and my bed is free
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Ah to be home now in Carrickfergus
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By the the long road down to the salty sea.

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Now in Kilkenny it is reported
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On marble stones there as black as ink
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With gold and silver I would support her
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But I'll say no more now till I?ve had a drink
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For I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober
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A handsome rover from town to town
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Ah but I'm sick now and my days are numbered
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So come all ye young men and lay me down.