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