{"id":115,"date":"2014-11-02T21:40:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T21:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petercookie.com.speedwell.arvixe.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2016-04-26T08:32:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T08:32:50","slug":"macarfrae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/11\/02\/macarfrae\/","title":{"rendered":"MacCarfrae"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mp3jWrap_0\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  sdl_right\" style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_0\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">71.213.10<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:12.6px;\" id=\"statusMI_0\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_0\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [\n\t{ name: \"71.213.10\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zc3NhLmxsYy5lZC5hYy51ay93aGFsc2F5YW5zL3dwLWNvbnRlbnQvdXBsb2Fkcy9zaXRlcy8yLzIwMTUvMDEvNzEuMjEzLjEwLm1wMw==\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script>\n\n<script>MP3jPLAYERS[0] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:true, vol:100, height:'' };<\/script>\n<p><strong>Willie Williamson \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<em>[McCaffery]\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0 SA1971.213.10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Willie Williamson learned this convict song from a Welsh Stoker named Willy Jones, while on a tramp steamer sailing from the Tyne around 1926. Jones apparently used to sing it while shovelling coal but Willie got him to teach him it during their 4-hour shifts off watch.\u00a0\u00a0 The song was apparently one of the many songs published by Chas. Sanderson of Edinburgh in his series of song sheets entitled\u00a0Favourite Songs in Country Districts\u00a0and some Whalsay folk used to write away for these sheets. The sad tale of Patrick McCaffery is a true one, which according to the Wikipedia account, \u2018found popular ear amongst the large Catholic Irish population of the North West of England\u2019. \u00a0See No. 1148 in the Roud index which includes 45 versions.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 30px\"><em>Come all you men, listen to my sad tale<\/em><br \/>\n<em>As here I lie in Kirkdale Gaol,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>My thoughts and feelings no man can tell<\/em><br \/>\n<em>As I live my life in a prison cell.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>When I was scarcely eighteen years of age,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To join the army I did engage,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>So I left my factory\u00a0and fully bent<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To join the Royal Irish Regiment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>To Clonmel barracks I did go<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To serve seven years at that depot<\/em>,<br \/>\n<em>And out of trouble must always be<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Until my captain took a dislike to me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>As I stood on sentry-go one day<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Some soldiers\u2019 children came round to play; <\/em><br \/>\n<em>From officers quarters my captain came<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And ordered me for to take their names.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>They were my orders I must\u00a0fulfil,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But I did it sternly against my will<\/em>;<br \/>\n<em>I took one name not the other three,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Neglect of duty was then charged against me.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To the orderly room I did then appear<\/em>;<br \/>\n<em>My colonel my sad tale refused to hear,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And then my sentence was quickly signed<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And to Fulwood Barracks I was then confined.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>But when I returned on duty again<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A burning thought entered my mad brain;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>With loaded rifle I did prepare<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To slay my captain on the barrack square.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>I took deadly aim but the shot went wide<\/em><br \/>\n<em>When I saw what I\u2019d done, \u201cMy God!\u201d I cried<\/em>,<br \/>\n<em>Twas Captain Harman I meant to kill<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But I shot my colonel against my will.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>I\u2019d done the deed, I shed his blood<\/em>,<br \/>\n<em>And at Liverpool Assizes my trial stood<\/em>;<br \/>\n<em>The judge he said &#8220;John McCaffery,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Prepare yourself for the gallows tree&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>I had no father to take my part<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Nor yet a mother to break her heart<\/em>,<br \/>\n<em>But I had one friend and a girl was she<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Who\u2019d lay down her life for to set me free.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Now all you men take wise from me<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And treat your men with decency<\/em>.<br \/>\n<em>\u2018Twas cruel spite and jealousy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>That caused the death of McCaffery.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Twas in old England this sailor died<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In a felon\u2019s grave his body lies<\/em>;<br \/>\n<em>Now I ask you men who may pass my grave<\/em>,<br \/>\n<em>Say &#8220;The Lord have mercy on McCaffery&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/11\/02\/macarfrae\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,33],"tags":[66,102,152],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-p","category-willie-williamson","tag-convict","tag-irish","tag-solo-voice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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