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
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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