Napper Tandy The ninth day of November in the year of ninety-one The Rebel Napper Tandy His villainy began In forming a conspiracy, This nation to embroil In civil war and mutiny And to pollute the soil His wicked crew they did intend Our Governors to kill And any of the Protestants Who dare oppose their will To massacre our ministers And pull our churches down To extirpate the Orangemen And take from George his crown They burn'd houses and straw stacks The assembled in the night Broke upon doors and windows In order to affright The people to comply with them Crying give out your gun And unite with us immediately Or else you are undone The Croppies most outrageously Did take an active part Against the Church of England And thought to make her smart But proidence protected us From this blood-thirsty clan And prevented them to act a scene Like that of Forty-one We value not the Yeomanry These rebels oft did say Tis easy to disarm them And soon well gain the day And every man who is not up Shall hang at his own door And we ll guillotine each Royalist let him be rich or poor If on the way we chanced to meet One of this wicked clan He asks you Are you up to snuff Or whats that in your hand And if you know not what to say He answers with a frown Since it is a thing you are not up Ill there fore knock you down They carried on their fury Till the year of ninety seven When to this vile conspiracy A happy check was given For Government found out their schemes And turned their plan astray And made them swear allegiance May we bless that happy day Then to disperse this brotherhood Lord Blaney he came down To recompense the insolence Of each insulting clown Their midnight vengeance did reward And filled them with dismay And for their perseverance Soon he mad the caitiffs pay But to conclude kind Providence Dispelld the wicked throng So let us sing God Save the Queen And may her reign be long Success to each true Protestant Who does maintain this cause Against those vile conspirators In honor of his laws CB
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