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| | | Artist: | Lloyd |
| | Album: | Miscellaneous | | Track: | Mccassery | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 257 | | | | Lyrics: | McCassery
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 Assizes my trial
stood;
The judge he says, "McCassery
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 McCassery.
In Liverpool City this young
man was tried
In Strangeways, Manchester, his body lies.
And all you young soldiers who
pass his grave,
Pray: Lord have mercy on McCassery.
From Lloyd, Folk Song in
England. Sometimes called McCafferty.
See also CROPPY2
@soldier @jail
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