Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song When I Was On Horseback , by - Steeleye Span. Release date: 31.07.2003
Song language: English
When I Was On Horseback |
| When I was on horseback, wasn’t I pretty? |
| When I was on horseback, wasn’t I gay? |
| Wasn’t I pretty when I entered Cork City |
| And met with my downfall on the fourteenth of May? |
| Six jolly soldiers to carry my coffin |
| Six jolly soldiers to march by my side |
| It’s six jolly soldiers take a bunch of red roses |
| Then for to smell them as we go along |
| Beat the drum slowly and play the pipes only |
| Play up the dead march as we go along |
| And bring me to Tipperary and lay me down easy |
| I am a young soldier that never done wrong |
| When I was on horseback, wasn’t I pretty? |
| When I was on horseback, wasn’t I gay? |
| Wasn’t I pretty when I entered Cork City |
| And met with my downfall on the fourteenth of May? |