Key: C major
Verse 1
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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
Verse 2
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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
Verse 3
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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
Verse 4
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A loaded rifle I did prepare
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For to shoot my captain
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on 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
Verse 5
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At Liverpool Assizes my trial I stood
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And I held my courage as best I could
Then the old judge said,
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Now, McCafferty
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Go prepare your soul for eternity
Verse 6
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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
Verse 7
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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
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