[00:15.823]I wish I was in Carrickfergus[00:24.548]Only for nights now in Ballygran[00:32.463]I would swim over the deepest ocean[00:41.084]The deepest ocean for my love to find[00:48.868]But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over[00:57.567]Neither have I the wings to fly[01:05.822]If I could find me a lonesome boatman[01:13.841]To ferry me over my love and I[01:22.279]My childhood days bring back sad reflections[01:30.377]Of happy time I spent so long ago[01:38.684]My boyhood friends and my own relations[01:47.017]Have all passed on now like the melted snow[01:54.984]So I'll spend my days in endless roving[02:03.500]Soft is the grass my bed is free[02:12.147]Ah, to be home now in Carrickfergus[02:20.271]On that long road down to the sea[02:37.198]And in Kilkenny it is reported[02:46.210]On marble stone there as black as ink[02:54.596]With gold and silver I would support her[03:03.529]But I'll sing no more now till I get a drink[03:11.915]For I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober[03:20.849]A handsome rover from town to town[03:30.044]Ah but I am sick now and my days are numbered[03:39.291]Come here young men and lay me down