Carrickfergus Loudon Wainwright III

I wish I was
In Carrickfergus
Only for nights
Nights in Ballygrand

I would swim over
The deepest ocean
The deepest ocean
For my love to find

But the sea is wide
And I can’t swim over
Neither have I wings to fly
If I could find me
A handsome boatman
To ferry me over
Over to my love and die

My childhood days
Bring back sad reflections
Of happy times
Spent so long ago

My boyhood friends
And my own relations
Have all passed on now
Like the melting snow