Mccassery

McCa*sery 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 a*sizes my trial stood; The judge he says, "McCa*sery 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 McCa*sery. In Liverpool City this young man was tried In Strangeways, Manchester, his body lies. And all you young soldiers who pa*s his grave, Pray: Lord have mercy on McCa*sery. From Lloyd, Folk Song in England. Sometimes called McCafferty. See also CROPPY2 filename[ MCa*sERY play.exe MCa*sERY RG ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY===