Lyr Add: Carrickfergus

Subject: Lyr Add: CARRICKFERGUS
From: Effsee
Date: 25 Jun 06 - 08:39 PM

Lyrics dictated to me in the early eighties by John Doonan as a result of his researches in Ireland. At that time these were 2 new verses, but the third(fourth)one seems to have been added since. It makes much more sense with the "new" second verse.
Sorry, no names of his sources.

Carrickfergus

I wish I was in Carrickfergus,
Only for nights in Ballygrant
I would swim over the deepest ocean,
Only for nights in Ballygrant,
But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over
Nor have I the wings to fly
I wish I could meet a handsome boatsman
To ferry me over, my love to find.

The night is dark, and the sky's uneasy,
The mighty ocean is tossed and wild,
When my true love, Bridget Vassey,
She crossed the ocean, left me behind.
Left me behind to count my losses,
And see my darling in every glass.
How sweet is loving, yet I am crying,
How long the dark night takes to pass.

My childhood days bring back sweet reflections
Of all those happy days of long ago,
My boyhood friends and kind relations
Have all passed on now like drifting snow.
I'll end my days an endless rover,
Soft is the grass, my bed is free.
Ah, to be back now in Carrickfergus,
On that lonesome road, down to the sea.

But in Kilkenny, it is reported,
They have marble stones there, 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 today, and I'm seldom sober,
A handsome rover from town to town,
Ah, but I'm sick now, my days are numbered,
Come all you young men and lay me down.

Discuss.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Carrickfergus
From: Effsee
Date: 25 Jun 06 - 08:41 PM

Sorry...second/third!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Carrickfergus
From: Big Tim
Date: 26 Jun 06 - 01:32 AM

Have we not been through this movie before, several times?

The 'new' verse was probably written by Dominic Behan.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Carrickfergus
From: Effsee
Date: 26 Jun 06 - 07:04 AM

Have we not been through this movie before, several times?

The 'new' verse was probably written by Dominic Behan.

Sorry Tim, I haven't read all the threads, but I noticed it wasn't in the DT so just thought it was OK for a "Lyr Add".

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Carrickfergus
From: Lighter
Date: 18 May 26 - 06:41 PM

Western Times (Exeter, Eng.), Feb. 10, 1939:

"Always drunk, seldom sober,
Constantly roaming from town to town;
When I am dead, and my days are done,
Come, Polly Stone, and lay me down.

"Mrs Bridget Germon, of Kingsteignton, who...reached her 102nd birthday on Friday, promised before retiring to bed for the night, she would sing this ditty, a memory of her youth, to the friends surrounding her."

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Carrickfergus
From: meself
Date: 18 May 26 - 08:55 PM

"Lyrics dictated to me in the early eighties by John Doonan as a result of his researches in Ireland. At that time these were 2 new verses, but the third(fourth)one seems to have been added since." ... I'm confused ... ?