Loreena McKennitt - Carrighfergus

Uploaded by oberstul on Feb 13, 2009
This is my first tribute to the great singer Loreena McKennitt. The song is CARRIGHFERGUS from her first album, Elemental released in 1985. I really hope that you are gonna like it. It's a very melancholic, Irish traditional song. Here are the lyrics:
I wish I was in Carrighfergus
Only for nights in Ballygrant
I would swim over the deepest ocean
Only for nights in Ballygrant.

But the sea is wide, and I can't swim over
Neither have I wings to fly
If I could find me a handsome boatman
To ferry me over to my love and die.

Now in Kilkenny, it is reported
They've marble stones there as black as ink
With gold and silver I would transport her
But I'll sing no more now, till I get a drink

I'm drunk today, but I'm seldom sober
A handsome rover from town to town
Ah, but I am sick now, my days are over
Come all you young lads and lay me down.

I wish I was in Carrighfergus
Only for nights in Ballygrant.

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