[ti:McCafferty]
[ar:Aran Folk]
[al:Best Irish Folk Hits]
[by:]
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[00:00.00]McCafferty - Aran Folk
[00:07.03]When I was eighteen years of age
[00:12.89]
[00:13.51]Into the army I did engage
[00:19.33]
[00:19.98]I left me home with a good intent
[00:27.35]For to join the forty-second regiment
[00:33.45]
[00:34.35]As I was posted on guard one day
[00:39.41]
[00:40.24]Some soldiers' children came out to play
[00:46.95]From the officers' quarters me captain came
[00:53.67]And he ordered me for to take their names
[00:59.90]
[01:00.99]I took one name instead of three
[01:05.85]
[01:06.81]On neglect of duty they then charged me
[01:12.69]
[01:13.38]As confined to barracks with loss of pay
[01:20.47]For doing me duty the opposite way
[01:27.04]
[01:27.70]A loaded rifle I did prepare
[01:32.99]
[01:33.57]For to shoot me captain on the barracks square
[01:40.19]It was me captain that I meant to kill
[01:46.96]But I shot me colonel against me will
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[01:53.80]At Liverpool Assizes me trial I stood
[01:58.94]
[01:59.54]And I held me courage as best I could
[02:05.34]
[02:05.98]And the old judge said
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[02:09.01]Now McCafferty
[02:12.85]Go prepare your soul for eternity
[02:19.42]
[02:20.38]Well I had no father to take me part
[02:26.34]Had no loving mother to break her heart
[02:32.12]
[02:32.70]I had one friend and a girl was she
[02:39.08]Who'd lay down her life for McCafferty
[02:46.12]
[02:46.83]So come all you officers take advice from me
[02:52.19]
[02:52.74]And go treat your men with some dignity
[02:58.50]
[02:59.03]It's only lies and a tyranny
[03:05.82]That has made a murderer of McCafferty