Mary tells me that I sing more verses than are currently in the DT, so here's the version I sing. Most people seem to sing Van's shortened version these days. CARRICKFERGUS. I wish I had you in Carrickfergus Only four nights in Ballygrand I would swim over the deepest ocean The deepest ocean to be by your side But the water is wide I cannot get over And neither have I wings to fly Oh I wish I could find me a handy boatman To ferry me over to my love and die The night was dark and the sky uneasy The mighty ocean was tossed and wild When my own true love, sweet Bridget Vessey She crossed the ocean and left me behind Left me behind to count my losses And see my sweet darling in every glass How sweet is living, but yet I'm crying How long the dark night, it takes to pass My childhood days bring back sad reflection Of happy times spent so long ago My boyhood friends and my own relations Have all passed on like melting snow But I spend my days in endless roaming Soft is the grass and my bed is free Oh to be home now in Carrickfergus On the long road down to the salty sea And in Kilkenny it is reported On marble stones as black as ink With gold and silver I did support her But I'll sing no more 'till I get a drink I'm drunk to the day and I'm seldom sober A handsome rover from town to town Oh but I am sick now and my days are numbered So come all ye young men and lay me down Twelve months from now in Carrickfergus Enquire for me and you'll see my grave The greenest turf in all of Ireland Will cover me as I take my rest My troubles done, my wandering over I'll go no more, from town to town I'm going home now to Carrickfergus I'll get some young men to lay me down. Nynia :-) -) )
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