Paddy's Lamentation

Well its by the hush me boys and should ask
To hold your noise and listen to for Paddy's sad lamentation
I was by hunger pressed
In poverty distressed
So I thought I'd leave the Irish nation.

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Here's to you boys, now take my advice
To America I'd leave us not be coming.
There's nothing here but war.
Where the mur'drn cannons roar
And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin

Well I sold me horse and cow
My brothers pig and sow
My little plot of land I soon depart
With me sweatheart Peg McGee
I'm afraid I'll never see.
For I left her there that morning broken hearted

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Well meself and a hundred more to America sailed
Our fortunes to be made we were thinking
When we got to Yankee land,
They shoved a gun into our hands
Saying Paddy you must go and fight for Lincoln.

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General March is what he said.
You'll get shot or lose your head.
Every mother's son of you will get a pension.
Well meself I musat reneg.
They gave me a wooden peg
And be God this is the truth to you I mention.

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Well I thank meself and luck.
If I get fed on Indian buck.
Old Ireland is the country I delighted in.
With the devil I did say
Its curse Amerikay
For I think I've had enough of your hard fighting.

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