Pat Reilly

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It bein' on a monday morning, it 
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bein' our pay day
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We met Sergeant Jenkins at our 
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goin' away
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He says to Pat Reilly "You are a 
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handsome young man
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Will you come to John Kelly's 
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where we will set a dram"


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And while we sat there boozin' and 
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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 
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come along with me
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To the sweet County Longford, 
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strange faces there you'll see"


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"Oh no kind sir, a soldier's life 
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with me would not agree
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Nor neither would I bind myself 
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down from my liberty
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For I lived as happy as a prince, 
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my mind does tell me so
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So fare thee well, I'm just goin' 
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down, my ?shatter for to thow?


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"Oh are you in a hurry, are you 
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goin' away?
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Or won't you stop and listen to 
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these words I'm goin' to say
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Perhaps now Pat Reilly, you might
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 do something worse
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Than to leave your native country 
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and enlist in the Black Horse"


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Oh it's I took the bounty, the 
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reckoning was paid
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The ribbons were brought out, me 
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boys, and into my cockade
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It's early the next morning we 
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all were made to stand
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Before our grand general with 
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hats all in our hands


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He says to Pat Reilly "You are a 
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little too low
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With some other regiment I fear 
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you have to go"
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"I may go where I will, I have 
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no-one to mourn
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For my mother is dead, me boys, 
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and never will return"


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It's not in the morning that I 
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sing this song
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But it's in the cold evening as I 
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march alone
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With me gun o'er my shoulder I 
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bitterly do weep
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When I think of my true love that 
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now lies fast asleep


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My blessing on my mother that 
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reared me neat and clean
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But bad luck to my father that 
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made me serve the queen
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Oh had he been an honest man and 
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learned to me my trade
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I would never have enlisted nor 
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worn the cockade