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It bein' on a monday morning, it bein' our pay day
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We met Sergeant Jenkins at our goin' away
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He says to Pat Reilly "You are a handsome young man
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Will you come to John Kelly's where we will set a dram"
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And while we sat there boozin' and drinkin' our dram
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He says to Pat Reilly "You are a handsome young man
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I'd have you take the bounty and come along with me
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To the sweet County Longford, strange faces there you'll see"
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"Oh no kind sir, a soldier's life with me would not agree
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Nor neither would I bind myself down from my liberty
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For I lived as happy as a prince, my mind does tell me so
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So fare thee well, I'm just goin' down, my ?shatter for to thow?
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"Oh are you in a hurry, are you goin' away?
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Or won't you stop and listen to these words I'm goin' to say
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Perhaps now Pat Reilly, you might do something worse
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Than to leave your native country and enlist in the Black Horse"
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Oh it's I took the bounty, the reckoning was paid
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The ribbons were brought out, me boys, and into my cockade
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It's early the next morning we all were made to stand
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Before our grand general with hats all in our hands
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He says to Pat Reilly "You are a little too low
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With some other regiment I fear you have to go"
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"I may go where I will, I have no-one to mourn
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For my mother is dead, me boys, and never will return"
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It's not in the morning that I sing this song
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But it's in the cold evening as I march alone
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With me gun o'er my shoulder I bitterly do weep
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When I think of my true love that now lies fast asleep
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My blessing on my mother that reared me neat and clean
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But bad luck to my father that made me serve the queen
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Oh had he been an honest man and learned to me my trade
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I would never have enlisted nor worn the cockade
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