Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Mccafferty, artist - The Dubliners. Album song A Drop of the Hard Stuff, in the genre Кельтская музыка
Date of issue: 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 |