2 acessos
Bm E A F#m Bm E A D A I wish I was in Carrickfergus, only for nights in Ballygrant Bm E A F#m Bm E A D A I would swim over the deepest ocean, only for nights in Ballygrant E A F#m E A F#m D E But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over, neither have I the wings to fly A Bm E A F#m Bm E A I must find me a handsome boatman to ferry me over to my love and die [Verse 2] Bm E A F#m Bm E A D A My childhood days bring back sweet reflections The happy times I spent so long ago Bm E A F#m Bm E A D A My boyhood friends and kind relations have all past on now like melting snow E A F#m E A F#m D E I'll spend my days an endless rover soft is the grass and sure, my bed is free A Bm E A F#m Bm E A Oh but to be back, in carrickfergus to strike that lonely road, down by the sea [Verse 3] Bm E A F#m Bm E A D A And in kilkenny it is reported on marble stone there as black as ink Bm E A F#m Bm E A D A With gold and silver I would support her but I'll sing no more now til I get a drink E A F#m E A F#m D E For I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sobera handsome rover from town to town A Bm E A F#m Bm E A Ah but I'm sick now my days are numbered come all ye young men and lay me down