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Mccassery
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Kind friends take warning by my sad tale
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As I lay here in Strangeways Gaol
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My thoughts, my feelings, no tongue can tell
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As I am listening to the prison bell.
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When I was seventeen year of age
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Into the army I did engage.
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I did enlist with a good intent
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To join the Forty Second Regiment.
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To Fullwood Barracks I did go
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To serve some time at that depot.
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From trouble there I necer was free
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Because my captain took a dislike to me.
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When I was stationed on guard one day
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Some children came near me to play,
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My officer from his quarters came
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And ordered me to take their parents' name.
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My officer's orders I did fulfill
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I took their name against my will.
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I took one name instead of three
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"Neglect of Duty" was the charge against me.
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In the orderly-room next morning I did appear
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My C. O. Refused my plea to hear,
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Anf quickly he had signed my crime
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And to Fullwood Barracks I was then confined.
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With a loaded rifle I did prepare
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To shoot my captain on the barrack square;
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It was Captain Neill that I meant to kill,
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But I shot my colonel against my will.
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I done the deed, I she'd his blood,
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And at Liverpool Assizes my trial stood;
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The judge he says, "Mccassery
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Prepare yourself for the gallows-tree. "
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I have no father to take my part
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I have no mother to break her heart,
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I have one friend, and a girl is she
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Would lay down her life for Mccassery.
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In Liverpool City this young man was tried
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In Strangeways, Manchester, his body lies.
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And all you young soldiers who pass his grave,
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Pray: Lord have mercy on Mccassery.
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From Lloyd, Folk Song in England. Sometimes called Mccafferty.
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See also croppy2
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Filename[ mcassery
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Play. Exe mcassery
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Rg
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