Come all you warriors and renowned nobles Give ear unto my warlike theme And I will sing you how Father Murphy Lately aroused from his sleepy dream Neither Julius Cesar norAlexander Nor brave King Arthur could equal him Armies formidable he did conquer Though with two gun men he did begin
Camolin cavalry he did unhorse them Their first lieutenant he cut them down With shattered ranks and with broken columns They soon returned to Camolin town On the hill of Oulart he displayed his valour Where a hundred Corkmen lay on the plain At Enniscorthy his sword he wielded And I hope to see him once more again
When Enniscorthy became subject to him Twas then to Wexford we marched our men And on the Three Rock took up our quarters Waiting for daylight the town to win The loyal townsmen gave their assistance We'll die or conquer they all did say The yeomen cavalry made no resistance For on the pavement their corpses lay
With drums a-beating the town did echo And acclamations came from door to door On the Windmill Hill we pitched our tents And we drank like heroes but paid no score On Carraig Rua for some time we waited And next to Gorey we did repair At Tubberneering we thought no harm The bloody army was waiting there
The issue of it was a close engagement While on the soldiers we played warlike pranks Thro' sheepwalks, hedgerows and shdy thickets There were mangled bodies and broken ranks The shuddering cavalry I can't forget them We raised the brushes on their helmets straight They turned about and they bid for Dublin As if they ran for a ten-pound plate
Some crossed Donnybrook and more through Blackrock And some up Shankill without