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I wish I was in Carrickfergus, only for nights in Ballygrant
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I would swim over the deepest ocean, only for nights in Ballygrant
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But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over, neither have I the wings to fly
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I must find me a handsome boatman to ferry me over to my love and die
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My childhood days bring back sweet reflections The happy times I spent so long ago
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My boyhood friends and kind relations have all past on now like melting snow
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I'll spend my days an endless rover soft is the grass and sure, my bed is free
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Oh but to be back, in carrickfergus to strike that lonely road, down by the sea
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And in kilkenny it is reported on marble stone there as black as ink
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With gold and silver I would support her but I'll sing no more now til I get a drink
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For I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sobera handsome rover from town to town
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Ah but I'm sick now my days are numbered come all ye young men and lay me down
