McCafferty

McCafferty easy guitar chords by The Dubliners

1967Folk
Guitar
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E A D G B E

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  • C

  • F

  • G

  • C

  • F

  • G

  • Verse 1
    C
    F

    When I was eighteen years of age
    G
    C

    Into the army I did engage
    F
    C

    I left my home with a good intent
    G
    C

    For to join the forty-second regiment
    Verse 2
    C
    F

    While I was posted on guard one day
    G
    C

    Some soldiers' children came out to play
    F
    C

    From the officers' quarters my captain came
    G
    C

    And he ordered me for to take their names
    Verse 3
    C
    F

    I took one name instead of three
    G
    C

    On neglect of duty they then charged me
    F
    C

    I was confined to barracks with loss of pay
    G
    C

    For doing my duty the opposite way
    Verse 4
    C
    F

    A loaded rifle I did prepare
    G

    For to shoot my captain
    C

    on the barracks square
    F
    C

    It was my captain I meant to kill
    G
    C

    But I shot my colonel against my will
    Verse 5
    C
    F

    At Liverpool Assizes my trial I stood
    G
    C

    And I held my courage as best I could

    Then the old judge said,
    F
    C

    Now, McCafferty
    G
    C

    Go prepare your soul for eternity
    Verse 6
    C
    F

    I had no father to take my part
    G
    C

    No loving mother to break her heart
    F
    C

    I had one friend and a girl was she
    G
    C

    Who'd lay down her life for McCafferty
    Verse 7
    C
    F

    So come all you officers take advice from me
    G
    C

    And go treat your men with some decency
    F
    C

    For it's only lies and a tyranny
    G
    C
    That have made a murderer of McCafferty

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