The Dubliners – Mccafferty (Guitar)

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 When I was eighteen years of age

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Into the army I did engage

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I left my home with a good intent

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For to join the forty-second regiment

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While I was posted on guard one day

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Some soldiers' children came out to play

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From the officers' quarters my captain came

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And he ordered me for to take their names

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I took one name instead of three

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On neglect of duty they then charged me

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I was confined to barracks with loss of pay

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For doing my duty the opposite way

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A loaded rifle I did prepare

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For to shoot my captain in the barracks square

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It was my captain I meant to kill

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But I shot my colonel against my will

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At Liverpool Assizes my trial I stood

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And I held my courage as best I could

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Then the old judge said, now, McCafferty

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Go prepare your soul for eternity

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I had no father to take my part

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No loving mother to break her heart

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I had one friend and a girl was she

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Who'd lay down her life for McCafferty

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So come all you officers take advice from me

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And go treat your men with some decency

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For it's only lies and a tyranny

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That have made a murderer of McCafferty