Stephen's Green Lyrics - Rats In The Burlap - Real Mckenzies

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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