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Carrickfergus (Barroom Version)

from The Beasts by By Toutatis

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Vocals by Ben Muriel & Laura Currie

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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
If I could find me boatman

To ferry me over my love and I
My childhood days bring back sad reflections
Of happy times there spent so long ago
My boyhood friends and my own relations
Have all passed on now like melting snow
So I'll spend my days in this endless roving
Soft is the grass and shore, my bed is free
Oh to be home now in Carrickfergus
On the long road down to the salty sea

And in Kilkenny it is reported
On marble stone there as black as ink
With gold and silver I would support her
But I'll sing no more now ‘til I get a drink
For I’m drunk today and I'm seldom sober
A handsome rover from town to town
Ah but I'm sick now and my days are numbered
Come all ye young men and lay me down
Come all ye young men and lay me down.

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from The Beasts, released August 31, 2015
Recorded by Stephen Norman at Green Dragon Studios

Mastered by James Mottershead

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By Toutatis are based in various towns, cities and villages along the Northeast coast but generally gravitating around Saltburn-by-the Sea.

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