Tonalité : F major
Verse 1
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It bein' on a monday morn
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ing, it bein' our pay day
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We met Sergeant Jenkins
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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
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will set a dram"
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Verse 2
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And while we sat there boozin'
and drinkin' our dram
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He says to Pat Reilly "You
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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,
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strange faces there you'll see"
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"Oh no kind sir, a soldier's life with
Verse 3
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me would not agree
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Nor neither would I bind
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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,
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I'm just goin' down, my ?shatter for to thow?
Verse 4
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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
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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
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enlist in the Black Horse"
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Verse 5
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Oh it's I took the bounty,
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the reckoning was paid
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The ribbons were brought out,
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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
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our hands
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Verse 6
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He says to Pat Reilly
"You are a little too low
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With some other regiment
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I fear you have to go"
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"I may go where I will,
I have no-one to to mourn
For my mother is dead, me boys,
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and never will return"
Verse 7
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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
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as I march alone
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With me gun o'er my shoulder
I bitterly do weep
When I think of my true love that
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now lies fast asleep
Verse 8
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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
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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
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worn the cockade
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