‘McCafferty’…the story of the song

When I was scarcely eighteen years of age, Into the army I did engage, I left my house with full intent To join the forty-second [sic] regiment; To Fulwood barracks I then did go To do some duty in that old depot, But out of trouble I never was free, For my captain took a ... Read more

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