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   VI
   By a courtmartial as you shall hear
   And their sentence was to be flagged severe.
   But when Patrick Masterson got loose that night day,
   He shot the colonel without delay.
   VII
   The guards immediately did him surround,
   He was tried, and sentenced, and guilty found,
   A scaffold erected out in the square,
   And his brother pitched upon to hang him there.
   VIII
   James Masterson was called immediately,
   For to hang his brother he would not agree.
   Before I'd yield to such cruelty.
   I would die beside him on the gallows tree.
   IX
   A vile black sergeant proposed the deed,
   For to hang the brother he went up with speed,
   When all was ready he stood on the fall,
   When James he shot him with a pistol ball.
   X
   Well, the both were sentenced and condemned to die
   They were hanged that day on the gallows high,
   Farewell to parents and friends at home,
   We're going to die on our youth and bloom.

   

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      1. filíocht
         1. filíocht na ndaoine (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   H. Kinkade

   Gender

   Female

   Occupation

   Teacher

   Informant

   Miss Reilly

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   57

   Occupation

   Farmer

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   Lismagiril, Co. an Chabháin