Mccassery

<br>McCassery<br>Kind friends take warning by my sad tale<br>As I lay here in Strangeways Gaol<br>My thoughts, my feelings, no tongue can tell<br>As I am listening to the prison bell.<br>When I was seventeen year of age<br>Into the army I did engage.<br>I did enlist with a good intent<br>To join the Forty Second Regiment.<br>To Fullwood Barracks I did go<br>To serve some time at that depot.<br>From trouble there I necer was free<br>Because my captain took a dislike to me.<br>When I was stationed on guard one day<br>Some children came near me to play,<br>My officer from his quarters came<br>And ordered me to take their parents` name.<br>My officer`s orders I did fulfill<br>I took their name against my will.<br>I took one name instead of three<br>"Neglect of Duty" was the charge against me.<br>In the orderly-room next morning I did appear<br>My C.O. refused my plea to hear,<br>Anf quickly he had signed my crime<br>And to Fullwood Barracks I was then confined.<br>With a loaded rifle I did prepare<br>To shoot my captain on the barrack square;<br>It was Captain Neill that I meant to kill,<br>But I shot my colonel against my will.<br>I done the deed, I shed his blood,<br>And at Liverpool Assizes my trial stood;<br>The judge he says, "McCassery<br>Prepare yourself for the gallows-tree."<br>I have no father to take my part<br>I have no mother to break her heart,<br>I have one friend, and a girl is she<br>Would lay down her life for McCassery.<br>In Liverpool City this young man was tried<br>In Strangeways, Manchester, his body lies.<br>And all you young soldiers who pass his grave,<br>Pray: Lord have mercy on McCassery.<br>From Lloyd, Folk Song in England. Sometimes called McCafferty.<br>See also CROPPY2<br>filename[ MCASSERY<br>play.exe MCASSERY<br>RG<br>===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY===