Ronan Keating - Carrickfergus: chords

         C#m F#           B    G#m
I wish I was,  in Carrickfergus
        F#sus4 F#          B
Only for nights, in Ballygrant
             C#m F#           B     G#m
I would swim over the deepest ocean
          F#sus4 F#              B
The deepest ocean to be by your side
                B  G#m               F#
But the sea is wide and I can’t swim over
             G#m             F#
And nor have I the wings to fly
           C#m F#           B    G#m
If I could find me a handy boatman
            C#m F#               B
To ferry me over to my love and die

My childhood days bring back sad reflections
Of happy time spend so long ago
My boyhood friends and my own relations
Have all passed on like the melting snow
I'll spend my days in endless roving
Soft is the grass and my bed is free
Oh to be home now in Carrickfergus
On the long road down to the salty sea

And in Kilkenny it is reported
On marble stone as black as ink
With gold and silver I did support her
But I'll sing no more now till I get a drink
For I'm drunk today and I'm rarely sober
A handsome rover from town to town
Oh but I am sick now and my days are numbered
So come on ye young men and lay me down."