Pat Reilly Planxty

Irish song It bein on a monday morning, it bein our pay day We met Sergeant Jenkins at our goin away He says to Pat Reilly You are a handsome young man Will you come to John Kelly s where we will set a dram And while we sat there boozin and drinkin our dram He says to Pat Reilly You are a handsome young man I d have you take the bounty and come along with me To the sweet County Longford, strange faces there you ll see Oh no kind sir, a soldier s life with me would not agree Nor neither would I bind myself down from my liberty For I lived as happy as a prince, my mind does tell me so So fare thee well, I m just goin down, my shatter for to thow Oh are you in a hurry, are you goin away Or won t you stop and listen to these words I m goin to say Perhaps now Pat Reilly, you might do something worse Than to leave your native country and enlist in the Black Horse Oh it s I took the bounty, the reckoning was paid The ribbons were brought out, me boys, and into my cockade