AmDGEm
I wish I was, in Carrickfergus
AmDG
Only for nights, in Ballygrant
AmDGEm
I would swim over the deepest ocean
AmDG
The deepest ocean to be by your side
GD
But the sea is wide and I can’t swim over
EmAm
And nor have I the wings to fly
AmDGEm
If I could find me a handy boatman
AmDG
To ferry me over to my love and die
AmDGEm
My childhood days bring back sad reflections
AmDG
Of happy time spend so long ago.
AmDGEm
My boyhood friends and my own relations
AmDG
Have all passed on like the melting snow
GD
I’ll spend my days in endless roving
EmAm
Soft is the grass and my bed is free
AmDGEm
Oh to be home now in Carrickfergus
AmDG
On the long road down to the salty sea
AmDGEm
And in Kilkenny it is reported
AmDG
On marble stone as black as ink
AmDGEm
With gold and silver I did support her
AmDG
But I’ll sing no more now till I get a drink
GD
For I’m drunk today and I’m rarely sober
EmAmA handsome rover from town to town
AmDGEm
Oh but I am sick now and my days are numbered
AmDG
so come on ye young men and lay me down
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.