"Carrickfergus"
A sweet song. A song of love and longing. Should we dissect it? Should we explain it? Or maybe we should just listen to it and let the moods of the song wash over us as our private thoughts and memories rise to the surface like fish feeding under the willows in the gloaming of a summer's day... There are two versions for you to enjoy by Jim McCann and Charlotte Church or why not follow the lyrics below and sing along... Carrickfergus I wish I was in Carrickfergus Only for nights in Ballygrant I would swim over the deepest ocean The deepest ocean, 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 my love and I. My childhood days bring back sweet reflections The happy times I spent so long ago My boyhood friends and kind relations Have all passed on now like melting snow I'll spend my days an endless rover Soft is the grass and sure, my bed is free Oh but to be back...