Ronan Keating – Carrickfergus (Guitar)

         Am  D              G    Em
I wish I was,   in Carrickfergus

         Am     D         G
Only for nights, in Ballygrant

             Am  D           G     Em
I would swim over the deepest ocean

             Am   D                G
The deepest ocean to be by your side

                 G                      D
But the sea is wide and I can't swim over

             Em               Am
And nor have I the wings to fly

         Am  D              G    Em
If I could find me a handy boatman

               Am  D              G   
To ferry me over to my love and die

              Am  D              G        Em
My childhood days bring back sad reflections

         Am  D              G
Of happy time spend so long ago.

               Am  D              G    Em
My boyhood friends and my own relations

                     Am  D              G
Have all passed on like the melting snow

              G               D
I'll spend my days in endless roving

              Em                 Am
Soft is the grass and my bed is free

         Am  D              G    Em
Oh to be home now in Carrickfergus

                  Am  D                 G
On the long road down to the salty sea

             Am  D          G    Em
And in Kilkenny it is reported

         Am  D              G  
On marble stone as black as ink

           Am      D           G    Em
With gold and silver I did support her

                      Am  D               G
But I'll sing no more now till I get a drink

               G                       D
For I'm drunk today and I'm rarely sober

             Em                 Am
A handsome rover from town to town

                  Am  D              G    Em
Oh but I am sick now and my days are numbered

                  Am  D               G
so come on ye young men and lay me down