Key: C major
Verse 1
Eb
Fm
Bb
Cm
I wished I had you in Carrickfergus,
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Ebsus4
Eb
Cm
Only for nights in Ballygrand,
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Bb
Cm
I would swim over the deepest ocean,
Fm
Eb
The deepest ocean to be by your side.
Bb
But the sea is
Verse 2
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Fm
Bb
wide and I can't swim over
Cm
Bb
Eb
Cm
Fm
Bb
And neither have I wings to fly.
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Fm
Bb
Cm
I wish I could find me a handy boatman
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Bb
Eb
To ferry me over to my love and die.
Verse 3
Fm
Bb
My childhood days bring
Cm
back sad reflections
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Bb
Eb
Of happy days so long ago.
Cm
Fm
Bb
My boyhood friends and
Cm
my own relations.
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Bb
Eb
Have all passed on like the melting snow.
Verse 4
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Cm
Bb
Eb
So I'll spend my days in
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Bb
end less roving,
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Cm
Fm
Bb
Soft is the grass and my bed is free.
Cm
Fm
Bb
Cm
Oh to be home now in Carrickfergus,
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Bb
Eb
On the long road down to the salty sea.
Verse 5
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Bb
Cm
And in Kilkenny it is reported
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Bb
Eb
On marble stone there as black as ink,
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Fm
Bb
With gold and silver I
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did support her
Fm
But I'll sing no more now
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Eb
till I get a drink.
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Bb
I'm drunk today
Verse 6
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Bb
and I'm rarely sober,
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Bb
A handsome rover from town to town.
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Bb
Oh but I am sick now and my
Cm
days are numbered
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Cm
Fm
Bb
Come all ye young men
Cm
Bb
Bb
and lay me down.
Eb
Eb
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