Key: C majorDifficulty: Easy
Verse 1
B
E
When I was eighteen years of age
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B
Into the army I did engage
B7
E
B
I left my home with a good intent
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B
For to join the forty-second regiment
Verse 2
B
E
While I was posted on guard one day
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B
Some soldiers' children came out to play
B7
E
B
From the officers' quarters my captain came
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B
And he ordered me for to take their names
Verse 3
B
E
I took one name instead of three
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B
On neglect of duty they then charged me
B7
E
B
I was confined to barracks with loss of pay
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B
For doing my duty the opposite way
Verse 4
B
E
A loaded rifle I did prepare
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For to shoot my captain
B
on the barracks square
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E
B
It was my captain I meant to kill
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B
But I shot my colonel against my will
Verse 5
B
E
At Liverpool Assizes my trial I stood
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B
And I held my courage as best I could
B7
Then the old judge said,
E
B
Now, McCafferty
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B
Go prepare your soul for eternity
Verse 6
B
E
I had no father to take my part
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B
No loving mother to break her heart
B7
E
B
I had one friend and a girl was she
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B
Who'd lay down her life for McCafferty
Verse 7
B
E
So come all you officers take advice from me
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B
And go treat your men with some decency
B7
E
B
For it's only lies and a tyranny
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B
That have made a murderer of McCafferty
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB E F# B7
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