Carrickfergus - Gilles Servat

I wish I was in Carrickfergus

Only for nights in Ballygran

I would swim over the deepest ocean

I would swin over my love to find

But the sea is wide and I can’t swim over

And neither have I wings to fly

If I could find me a handsome boatman

To carry me over my love and I

And in Kilkenny it is reported

They’ve marble stone there as black as ink

With gold and silver I would support her

But I sing no more till I get a drink

I’m drunk today and I’m seldom sober

A handsome rover from town to town

Ah but I am sick now my days are numbered

Come on ye young man and lay me down

But the sea is wide and I can’t swim over

And neither have I wings to fly

If I could find me a handsome boatman

To carry me over my love and I