Paddy Reilly - Carrickfergus

Paddy Reilly singing Carrickfergus, at Opera House, Cork.

Carrickfergus

I wish I was in Carrickfergus
Only for nights in Ballygrand
I would swim over the deepest ocean
only for nights in Ballygrand.

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

for it's in Kilkenny it is reported on marble stones their as black as ink,
with Gold and Silver I would support her
but I'll sing no more now till I get a drink,

am drunk today and I am seldom sober
a handsome rover from town to town,
ah but am sick now for my day's there numbered,
so come all ye young men and lay me down.