My Coffin is Built and I am ready to go Take me on Parade down that long dirt road Displayed for the crowds enjoyment For I shall die, just as poor as I was born And I've never known any comforts back home I suffered the worst of employment
chorus I'm to go to Stephen's Green They'll take me there in the morning I'm to go to Stephen's Green The hangman's noose is Calling
So a thief I became, as my story goes As a highway man, I walk the old back roads That all seem to lead down to Dublin I knew that one day, I'd be caught I suppose When you strip a rich man down and take away his fancy clothes Then all the routes seemed un-taken
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Now I'm destined for King's Gold as I sit here and wait My one regret that I think that I can name Is that I didn't start robbing rich men sooner I'm to go to Stephen's Green They'll take me there in the morning I'm to go to Stephen's Green The hangman's noose is Calling
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