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Carrickfergus by The Dubliners - Guitar Chords

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            [Verse 1]
         Bm  E          A     F#m         Bm  E           A D A
I wish I was in Carrickfergus, only for nights in Ballygrant 
             Bm   E            A    F#m            Bm    E      A D A
I would swim over the deepest ocean, only for nights in Ballygrant
     E          A  F#m                E              A   F#m D        E 
But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over, neither have I the wings to fly
A      Bm      E           A      F#m           Bm  E               A
I must find me a handsome boatman to ferry me over to my love and die

[Verse 2]
         Bm  E          A     F#m         Bm  E                                 A D A
My childhood days bring back sweet reflections The happy times I spent so long ago 
             Bm   E            A    F#m            Bm    E                 A D A
My boyhood friends and kind relations have all past on now like melting snow 
     E          A  F#m                E              A   F#m D        E 
I'll spend my days an endless rover soft is the grass and sure, my bed is free 
A      Bm      E           A      F#m                   Bm  E                  A
Oh but to be back, in carrickfergus to strike that lonely road, down by the sea

[Verse 3]
         Bm  E          A     F#m         Bm  E                    A D A
And in kilkenny it is reported on marble stone there as black as ink
             Bm   E            A    F#m            Bm    E                         A D A
With gold and silver I would support her but I'll sing no more now til I get a drink
     E          A  F#m                E              A   F#m D        E 
For I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sobera handsome rover from town to town
A      Bm      E           A      F#m           Bm  E                        A
Ah but I'm sick now my days are numbered come all ye young men and lay me down 
        

We also have 37 songs by The Dubliners

• All For Me Grog
• Black Velvet Band
• Carrickfergus
• Come And Join The British Army
• Dirty Old Town
• Donegal Danny
• Dublin In The Rare Old Times
• Fiddlers Green
• Finnegans Wake
• Foggy Dew
• Go To Sea No More
• Hand Me Down My Bible
• Hot Asphalt
• Ill Tell Me Ma
• Im A Rover
• Kelly The Boy From Killane
• Maids When Youre Young
• Mcalpines Fusiliers
• Molly Malone
• Muirsheen Durkin
• On Raglan Road
• Peggy Gordon
• Poor Paddy On The Railway
• Rare Old Mountain Dew
• Rising Of The Moon
• Sam Hall
• Seven Drunken Nights
• Song For Ireland
• The Bonny Shoals Of Herring
• The Fields Of Athenry
• The Holy Ground
• The Leaving Of Liverpool
• The Night Visiting Song
• The Town I Loved So Well
• The Wild Rover
• Whiskey In The Jar
• Whiskey On A Sunday

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