Joan Baez Carrickfergus song lyrics

I wish I was in Carrickfergus

Only for nights in Ballygrand

I would swim over the deepest ocean

The deepest ocean to be by your side

But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over

Neither have I wings to fly

I wish I could find me a handy boatsman

To ferry me over to my love and die

These childhood places bring back sad reflections

Of happy times spent so long ago

My girlhood friends and my own relations

Have all passed on like the melting snow

And I'll spend my days in endless roaming

Soft is the grass, and my bed is free

Ah, to be home now in Carrickfergus

On that long road down to the salty sea

And at kill kinny it is reported

On marble stone as black as ink

With gold and silver he did support me

But I'll sing no more now 'til I've had a drink

And I'm drunk today and I'm rarely sober

'Cause I run from town to town

Oh, but I'm sick now, and my days are numbered

No more young nights, and lay me down

No more young nights, and lay me down