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The Dubliners
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I wish I was in Carrickfergus
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Only for nights in Ballygrand
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I would swim over the deepest ocean
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Only for nights in Ballygrand
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But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over
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And neither have I the wings to fly
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I wish I had a handsome boatsman
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To ferry me over my love and I
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(This verse is only sung on the "40 Years" CD)
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My childhood days bring back sad reflections
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Of happy times there spent so long ago
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My boyhood friends and my own relations
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Have all past on now with the melting snow
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So I'll spend my days in this endless roving
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Soft is the grass and shore, my bed is free
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Oh to be home now in carrickfergus
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On the long road down to the salty sea
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Now in Kilkenny it is reported
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On marble stone there as black as ink
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With gold and silver I would support her
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But I'll sing no more now til I get a drink
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Cause I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober
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A handsome rover from town to town
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Ah but I'm sick now my days are numbered
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Come all me young men and lay me down
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Come all me young men and lay me down.
Carrickfergus (Jim McCann with the Dubli...
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