Carrickfergus

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I wish I was,   in Carrickfergus
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Only for nights, in Ballygrant
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I would swim over the deepest 
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ocean
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The deepest ocean to be by your side

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But the sea is wide and I can't 
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swim over
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And nor have I    the wings to fly
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If I could find me a handy boatman
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To ferry me over to my love and die

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My childhood days bring back sad 
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reflections
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Of happy time spend so long ago.
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My boyhood friends and my own 
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relations
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Have all passed on like the 
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melting snow

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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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Oh to be home now in Carrickfergus
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On the long road down to the salty 
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sea

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And in Kilkenny it is reported
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On marble stone as black as ink
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With gold and silver I did 
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support her
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But I'll sing no more now till I 
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get a drink

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For I'm drunk today    and I'm 
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rarely sober
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A handsome rover from town to town
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Oh but I am sick now and my days 
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are numbered
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so come on ye young men and lay me
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