Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Mccafferty , by - The Dubliners. Song from the album A Drop of the Hard Stuff, in the genre Кельтская музыкаRelease date: 29.08.2019
Record label: Revolver
Song language: English
Mccafferty |
| When I was eighteen years of age |
| Into the army I did engage |
| I left my home with a good intent |
| For to join the forty-second regiment |
| While I was posted on guard one day |
| Some soldiers' children came out to play |
| From the officers' quarters my captain came |
| And he ordered me for to take their names |
| I took one name instead of three |
| On neglect of duty they then charged me |
| I was confined to barracks with loss of pay |
| For doing my duty the opposite way |
| A loaded rifle I did prepare |
| For to shoot my captain in the barracks square |
| It was my captain I meant to kill |
| But I shot my colonel against my will |
| At Liverpool Assizes my trial I stood |
| And I held my courage as best I could |
| Then the old judge said, Now, McCafferty |
| Go prepare your soul for eternity |
| I had no father to take my part |
| No loving mother to break her heart |
| I had one friend and a girl was she |
| Who’d lay down her life for McCafferty |
| So come all you officers take advice from me |
| And go treat your men with some decency |
| For it’s only lies and a tyranny |
| That have made a murderer of McCafferty |