Greetings from Carrickfergus

[Political Lurker]

Greetings from Carrickfergus
(Just outside Belfast) And its like a summers day! I've been let loose here for the day....
Sometimes you can be surrounded by beauty yet unable to see the wood for the trees
Heres a sad one for Bill.....


I wish I was in Carrickfergus, only for nights in Ballygran
I would swim over the deepest ocean, the deepest ocean for my love to find
But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over and neither have I wings to fly
If I could find me a handsome boatman to ferry me over to my love and die
My childhood days bring back sad reflections of happy times I spent so long ago
My boyhood friends and my own relations have all passed on now like melting snow
But I'll spend my days in endless roaming soft is the grass my bed is free
Ah to be back in Carrickfergus on that long road down to the sea
And in Kilkenny it is reported there are marble stones as black as ink
With gold and silver I would support her, but I'll sing no more now till I get a drink
I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober, a handsome rover from town to town
Ah, but I'm sick now, my days are numbered so come all ye young men and lay me down[1]
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Any day you wake up on "the right side of the dirt" is a good day.

[AndrewB]

Hey, Jamie,
thank you for the lyrics of CARRICKFERGUS! It's a song I like very much. The best version I can imagine is by VAN MORRISON & THE CHIEFTAINS on the IRISH HEARTBEAT. But I have to admit, I never have visited Carrickfergus (yet).

Have a good time,
Andreas