Carrickfergus Chords by The Clancy Brothers

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_ _ He stumbled home from Clifton Fair with drunken song and cheeks aglow,
Yet there was something in his air that told of kingship long ago.
I turned, and inly burned with grief, that one so high should fall so low.
But he plucked a flower and sniffed its scent, and waved it toward the sunset sky.
Some old sweet rapture through him went, and kindled in his bloodshot eye.
I sighed, and inly cried for joy, that one so low should rise so [Bm] high.
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] _ _
I wish [Bm] I was _ [Em] _ [A] in Carrickford _ _ [F#m] _ _ [Bm] only for _ [Em] nights,
Yet [E] _ in [A] Ballyboo I _ _ _ _
[F#] would swim [Bm] o'er the [Em] _ deepest o [A]'er ocean,
_ [F#m] _ The [Bm] deepest o'er ocean, _ [Em] _ [E] my [A] love.
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The sea is wide, _ and I can't swim o [E]'er,
[Em] _ _ _
And [A] neither have _ _ [D] I wings [E] to fly.
_ _ _ _ [F#] I [Bm] wish I could be _ _ [E] _ [A] a handsome boy,
_ _ [F#m] _ To [Bm] ferry me o'er to [E] _ _ my love [A] and I. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] Ah, but in [Bm] Kilkenny _ [E] _
[A] it is reported,
_ [F#m] _ They have [Bm] marble _ stones [E] there _ _ _ [A]
as black as ink,
_ _ _ With [Bm] gold and silver [E] I [A] did support.
_ [F#m] _ _ [F#] But I'll [Bm] sing no more, _ [E] _ _ [A] until I get a drink. _
_ _ _ I'm drunk today, _ and I'm self [E] _ _
sober,
_ _ _ [A] I'm some _ rower _ [D] from town [E] to town.
_ _ _ _ _ [B] Ah, [Bm] but I'm sick now, _ _ [B] _ my [A] days are long,
_ _ [F#m] _ _ [F#] Come [Bm] all you young men _ [E] _ _
and women.
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[E] _ _ _ [Bm] _ [N] _ _ _ _