Key: C major•
Verse 1
Dm
G
C
Dm
F
C
I wish I was
C
Carrickfuggers
Dm
F
Dm
Only for nights in
F
G
C
I would swim over the deepest ocean,
F
Dm
F
C
The deepest ocean to be by your side.
F
G
But the sea is wide,
Am
F
G
and I cannot swim over,
Am
F
And neither have I the wings to fly.
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Dm
Gsus4
G
C
Am
I wish I could find a handy boatman to
Dm
G
C
Dm
G
C
F
Gsus4
ferry me over to my love and die.
F
G
My childhood days bring back sad reflections
Am
F
Gsus4
G
of happy times I spent so long ago.
C
G
F
G
Am
My boyhood friends an d my own relations have
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G
Csus4
all passed on now like the melting snow.
C
G
Am
G
But I'll spend my days an endless rover.
Am
F
G
Soft is the grass, my head is free,
Dm
F
G
Ah, to be back in
Carrick,
Am
On that long,
Dm
G
C
Dm
G
road down to the sea.
F
Dm
G
F
C
But in
Dm
C
Kilkenny it is reported
C
Dm
G
With gold and silver I
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Am
would support her
Dm
F
C
But I'll sing no more now till I get a drink
Dm
C
I'm a drunk today
G
Am
G
F
And I'm seldom sober
G
Dm
G
Ah, but I'm sick now,
and my days are numbered,
Am
G
F
So come all you young men,
Ah!
C
F
G
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