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Croppy Boy - The Dubliners

It was early early all in the Spring

When the birds did whistle and sweetly sing

Changing their notes all from tree to tree

And the song they sang was Old Ireland free

Oh as I went walkin' up Wexford street

Oh me own first cousin I changed to meet

Well me own first cousin did me betray

And for one bare guinnea sold me life away

It was early early all in the night

When the yeoman cavalry gave me a fright

Well the yeoman cavalry was my downfall

And taken was I by Lord Cornwall

And as I went walking up Wexford Hill

Now who could blame me to cry me fill

I looked behind and I looked before

And my aged mother I'll see no more

And when I stood on the scaffold high

My own dear father was standing by

Well me own dear father did me deny

And the name he gave me was the croppy boy

In Dungannon town now this boy died

In Dungannon town does his body lie

So all you strangers that do pass by

That's go shed a tear for the croppy boy