Carrickfergus

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[Verse]
         Am  D         G      Em
I wish I was in Carrickfergus
         Am    D   C    G
Only for nights in Ballygran
             Am  D            G  
I would swim over the deepest 
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ocean
            Am    D      C       
The deepest ocean for my love to 
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find

[Verse]
        G      Em         C      
But the sea is wide and I can't 
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swim over
            Em   G     C        D
And neither have I the wings to fly
           Am      D        
If I could find me a handsome 
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boatsman
            Am   D      C        G
To ferry me over, to my love and die

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[Verse]
             Am  D           G
My childhood days bring back sad 
     Em
reflections
         Am   D      C        G
Of happy times spent so long ago
             Am     D       G
My childhood friends and my own 
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relations
                Am    D     C    
Have all passed on now like 
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melting snow

[Verse]
         G        Em      C       
But I'll spend my days in endless 
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roaming
            Em     G  C      D
Soft is the grass, my bed is free
          Am      D          G
Ah, to be back now in Carrickfergus
             Am   D    C      G
On that long road down to the sea

[Verse]
    G     Am   D         G      Em
And in Kilkenny, it is reported
          Am     D         C     
There are marble stones as black 
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as ink
              Am     D      
With gold and silver, I would 
     G        Em
support her
                 Am   D           
But I'll sing no more now, 'till I
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 get a drink

[Verse]
        G       Em           C   
For I'm drunk today, and I'm 
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seldom sober
           Em G       C       D
A handsome rover from town to town
         Am          D            
But I am sick now and my days are 
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numbered
                 Am    D       C 
So, come all you young men and 
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lay me down