C F C G
It bein' on a monday morning, it bein' our pay day
F C G
We met Sergeant Jenkins at our goin' away
C F C G
He says to Pat Reilly "You are a handsome young man
F C G C
Will you come to John Kelly's where we will set a dram"
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C F C G
And while we sat there boozin' and drinkin' our dram
F C G
He says to Pat Reilly "You are a handsome young man
C F C G
I'd have you take the bounty and come along with me
F C G C
To the sweet County Longford, strange faces there you'll see"
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C F C G
"Oh no kind sir, a soldier's life with me would not agree
F C G
Nor neither would I bind myself down from my liberty
C F C G
For I lived as happy as a prince, my mind does tell me so
F C G C
So fare thee well, I'm just goin' down, my ?shatter for to thow?
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C F C G
"Oh are you in a hurry, are you goin' away?
F C G
Or won't you stop and listen to these words I'm goin' to say
C F C G
Perhaps now Pat Reilly, you might do something worse
F C G C
Than to leave your native country and enlist in the Black Horse"
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C F C G
Oh it's I took the bounty, the reckoning was paid
F C G
The ribbons were brought out, me boys, and into my cockade
C F C G
It's early the next morning we all were made to stand
F C G C
Before our grand general with hats all in our hands
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C F C G
He says to Pat Reilly "You are a little too low
F C G
With some other regiment I fear you have to go"
C F C G
"I may go where I will, I have no-one to mourn
F C G C
For my mother is dead, me boys, and never will return"
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C F C G
It's not in the morning that I sing this song
F C G
But it's in the cold evening as I march alone
C F F G
With me gun o'er my shoulder I bitterly do weep
F C G C
When I think of my true love that now lies fast asleep
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C F C G
My blessing on my mother that reared me neat and clean
F C G
But bad luck to my father that made me serve the queen
C F C G
Oh had he been an honest man and learned to me my trade
F C G C
I would never have enlisted nor worn the cockade
