Steeleye Span - When I Was On Horseback Lyrics

Lyrics When I Was On Horseback - Steeleye Span



When I was on horseback, wasn't I pretty?
When I was on horseback, wasn't I gay?
Wasn't I pretty when I entered Cork City
And met with my downfall on the fourteenth of May?
Six jolly soldiers to carry my coffin
Six jolly soldiers to march by my side
And it's six jolly soldiers, take a bunch of red roses
Then for to smell them as we march along
Beat the drum slowly and play the pipes only
Play up the dead-march as we go along
And bring me to Tipperary and lay me down easy
I am a young soldier that never done wrong
When I was on horseback, wasn't I pretty?
When I was on horseback, wasn't I gay?
Wasn't I pretty when I entered Cork City
And met with my downfall on the fourteenth of May?



Writer(s): Maddy Prior, Peter Knight, Rick Kemp, Robert Johnson


Steeleye Span - The Lark in Morning - The Early Years
Album The Lark in Morning - The Early Years
date of release
01-08-2003

1 A Calling-On Song
2 The Blacksmith (1991 Version)
3 Fisherman's Wife
4 The Blackleg Miner
5 The Dark-Eyed Sailor
6 Copshawholme Fair
7 All Things Are Quite Silent
8 The Hills of Greenmore
9 My Johnny Was a Shoemaker
10 Lowlands of Holland
11 Twa Corbies
12 One Night as I Lay on My Bed
13 The Blacksmith
14 Cold, Haily, Windy Night
15 Jigs: Bryan O'Lynn / The Hag With the Money
16 Prince Charlie Stuart
17 Boys of Bedlam
18 False Knight on the Road
19 The Lark In the Morning
20 Female Drummer
21 The King
22 Lovely On the Water
23 Rave On
24 The Gower Wassail
25 Jigs: Paddy Clancey's Jig / Willie Clancey's Fancy
26 Four Nights Drunk
27 When I Was On Horseback
28 Marrowbones
29 Captain Coulston
30 Reels: Dowd's Favourite / 10 Float / The Morning Dew
31 Wee Weaver
32 Skewball
33 General Taylor




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