Artist: | The Dubliners (English) |
User: | Tony |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
G Am D G Em
I wish I was, in Carrickfergus
Am D G
Only for nights, in Ballygrant
Am D G Em
I would swim over the deepest ocean
Am D G
The deepest ocean to be by your side
D G Em D
But the sea is wide and I can't swim over
G Em C D
And nor have I the wings to fly
Am D G Em
If I could find me a handy boatman
Am D G
To ferry me over to my love and die
Am D G Em
My childhood days bring back sad reflections
Am D G
Of happy time spend so long ago.
Am D G Em
My boyhood friends and my own relations
Am D G
Have all passed on like the melting snow
D G Em D
I'll spend my days in endless roving
G Em C D
Soft is the grass and my bed is free
Am D G Em
Oh to be home now in Carrickfergus
Am D G
On the long road down to the salty sea
Am D G Em
And in Kilkenny it is reported
Am D G
On marble stone as black as ink
Am D G Em
With gold and silver I did support her
Am D G
But I'll sing no more now till I get a drink
D G Em D
For I'm drunk today and I'm rarely sober
G Em C D
A handsome rover from town to town
Am D G Em
Oh but I am sick now and my days are numbered
Am D G
so come on ye young men and lay me down