Paddy Reilly singing Carrickfergus, at Opera House, Cork. Carrickfergus I wish I was in Carrickfergus Only for nights in Ballygrand I would swim over the deepest ocean only for nights in Ballygrand. But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over and neither have I the wings to fly I wish I could find me a handsome boatman To ferry me over to my love and i, for it's in Kilkenny it is reported on marble stones their as black as ink, with Gold and Silver I would support her but I'll sing no more now till I get a drink, am drunk today and I am seldom sober a handsome rover from town to town, ah but am sick now for my day's there numbered, so come all ye young men and lay me down.