Carrickfergus Songtext
von Aran Folk

I wish I was in Carrickfergus
Only for nights in Ballygran
I would swim over the deepest ocean
The deepest ocean, my love to find

But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over
And neither have I the wings to fly
If I could find me a handsome boatman
To ferry me over, my love to find


My bring back sweet reflections
Those happy hours I spent so long ago
My childhood friends and the kind relations
Have all passed on now, like melting snow

I spend my days in endless roving
Soft is the grass and sure my path is free
Oh, to be back in Carrickfergus
To strike that lonesome road down to the sea

They say of life and it has been written
One chance is granted, that chance I′ve lost
The sands of time have out passed old love and me
And it is too late now, sick and because


I'm drunk today, and I′m seldom sober
A handsome lover
Ah, but I'm sick, now my days are numbered
Come all you young men and lay me down