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lloyd - mccassery lyrics

mcc-ssery
kind friends take warning by my sad tale
as i lay here in strangeways gaol
my thoughts, my feelings, no tongue can tell
as i am listening to the prison bell.
when i was seventeen year of age
into the army i did engage.
i did enlist with a good intent
to join the forty second regiment.
to fullwood barracks i did go
to serve some time at that depot.
from trouble there i necer was free
because my captain took a dislike to me.
when i was stationed on guard one day
some children came near me to play,
my officer from his quarters came
and ordered me to take their parents’ name.
my officer’s orders i did fulfill
i took their name against my will.
i took one name instead of three
“neglect of duty” was the charge against me.
in the orderly-room next morning i did appear
my c.o. refused my plea to hear,
anf quickly he had signed my crime
and to fullwood barracks i was then confined.
with a loaded rifle i did prepare
to shoot my captain on the barrack square;
it was captain neill that i meant to kill,
but i shot my colonel against my will.
i done the deed, i shed his blood,
and at liverpool -ssizes my trial stood;
the judge he says, “mcc-ssery
prepare yourself for the gallows-tree.”
i have no father to take my part
i have no mother to break her heart,
i have one friend, and a girl is she
would lay down her life for mcc-ssery.
in liverpool city this young man was tried
in strangeways, manchester, his body lies.
and all you young soldiers who p-ss his grave,
pray: lord have mercy on mcc-ssery.
from lloyd, folk song in england. sometimes called mccafferty.
see also croppy2
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