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When I was on horseback, wasn't I pretty

When I was on horseback, wasn't I gay

Wasn't I pretty when I entered Cork city

And met with my downfall on the fourteenth of may

Six jolly soldiers to carry my coffin

Six jolly soldiers to march by my side

It's six jolly soldiers take a bunch of red roses

And for to smell them as we go along

Beat the drum slowly and play the pipes only

Playing the deadmarch as we go along

And bring me to Tipperary and lay me down easy

I am a young soldier that've never done wrong

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