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作曲 : Traditional arranged by David Kincaid |
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You feeling Christians both one and all |
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Come pay attention unto my call |
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Until you hear my doleful tragedy |
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Of these two brothers all in Americay |
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James and Patrick Masterson as you may see |
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In Ballymena were reared most tenderly |
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They left their loving parents on a woeful day |
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To seek their fortune all in Americay |
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In '58 they sailed away |
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Bound for New Orleans in Americay |
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But mark what followed without delay |
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For the war broke out on a woeful day |
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To take up arms they were forced to fight |
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Through fatigue and hardships both day and night |
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With savage blocks they could not agree |
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Where in the regiment, proved their destiny |
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They were punished severely in that savage corps |
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And often flogged till left in their gore |
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They often thought of their friends so dear |
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They left lamenting and to shed a tear |
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To desert this regiment they were inclined |
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For to reach the north they made up their minds |
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By nighted travel for to make their way |
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And in the woods they lay, concealed by day |
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For three long days they could not be found |
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At length the picket did them would surround |
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They were taken prisoners with handcuffs bound |
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And by a court martial they were guilty found |
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By a court martial as you soon shall hear |
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Their sentence was to be flogged severe |
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When Patrick Masterson got loose that day |
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He shot the colonel without delay |
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The guards immediately did him surround |
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Been tried and sentenced and guilty found |
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A scaffold now erected in the square |
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And his brother pitched upon, to hang him there |
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James Masterson was called immediately |
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To hang his brother he would not agree |
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"Before I'd yield to such cruelty |
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I will die beside him on a gallows tree" |
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A wild black sergeant proposed to do the deed |
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To hang the brothers he went up with speed |
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Now all being ready he stood on the fall |
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And James he shot him with a pistol ball |
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They both were sentenced and condemned to die |
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And hanged that day on a gallows high |
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Farewell Ould Ireland, our native home |
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We here must die in our youth and bloom |
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Those two brothers met their sad downfall |
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They were lamented by their comrades all |
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From friends and parents far far away |
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They have suffered death and curse in South Americay |
