David Kincaid — Two Brothers Mastersons

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[Verse 1]
            E               A
You feeling Christians both one and all
     B                  E
Come pay attention unto my call
E                         A    E
Until you hear my doleful tragedy
             B               A    E
Of these two brothers all in Americay

[Verse 2]
E                              A
James and Patrick Masterson as you may see
   B                          E
In Ballymena were reared most tenderly
E                                   A      E
They left their loving parents on a woeful day
              B              A    E
To seek their fortune all in Americay

[Verse 3]
E           A
In '58 they sailed away
      B                    E
Bound for New Orleans in Americay
E                         A      E
But mark what followed without delay
                  B        A      E
For the war broke out on a woeful day

[Verse 4]
           E              A
To take up arms they were forced to fight
          B                        A       E
Through fatigue and hardships both day and night
            E                 A   E
With savage blocks they could not agree
                 B                  A     E
Where in the regiment, proved their destiny

[Verse 5]
E                                     A         E
They were punished severely in that savage corps
            B               A        E
And often flogged till left in their gore
           E                A          E
They often thought of their friends so dear
               B            A     E
They left lamenting and to shed a tear

[Verse 6]
               E             A       E
To desert this regiment they were inclined
                 B               A        E
For to reach the north they made up their minds
E                        A          E
By nighted travel for to make their way
           B               A            E
And in the woods they lay, concealed by day

[Verse 7]
               E               A      E
For three long days they could not be found
              B               A        E
At length the picket did them would surround
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They were taken prisoners with handcuffs bound
               B                 A      E
And by a court martial they were guilty found

[Verse 8]
               E               A       E
By a court martial as you soon shall hear
               B         A       E
Their sentence was to be flogged severe
E                          A          E
When Patrick Masterson got loose that day
             B          A    E
He shot the colonel without delay

[Verse 9]
               E           A      E
The guards immediately did him surround
                 B           A      E
Been tried and sentenced and guilty found
E                      A        E
A scaffold now erected in the square
                B                A        E
And his brother pitched upon, to hang him there

[Verse 10]
               E             A       E
James Masterson was called immediately
             B               A     E
To hang his brother he would not agree
E                         A     E
"Before I'd yield to such cruelty
            B              A       E
I will die beside him on a gallows tree"

[Verse 11]
               E                 A       E
A wild black sergeant proposed to do the deed
               B                A      E
To hang the brothers he went up with speed
E                            A      E
Now all being ready he stood on the fall
               B              A     E
And James he shot him with a pistol ball

[Verse 12]
               E             A            E
They both were sentenced and condemned to die
                 B        A       E
And hanged that day on a gallows high
E                          A      E
Farewell Ould Ireland, our native home
              B          A       E
We here must die in our youth and bloom

[Verse 13]
               E             A       E
Those two brothers met their sad downfall
            B               A        E
They were lamented by their comrades all
E                            A   E
From friends and parents far far away
                   B                        A   E
They have suffered death and curse in South Americay		
    

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