Captain Taggart took the field

With his men as hard as steel

And we drove the bloody rebels to the sea

Before the guns were stilled

There were many hundreds killed

There's many an Irish girl sad tonight



When the smoke had cleared

It was just as we had feared

Captain Taggart lay wounded on the ground

With his head upon my knee

There he met eternity

I proudly closed his eyes and then I cried



Chorus:

Its whiskey in the mornin', whiskey in the night

Another Irish soldier-lad, has fought his final fight

We'll toast him till were drunk Boys, and dowse the 

candle light

Tell them Captain Taggart, is comin' home tonight



Well, we took his body home

And the drums and pipes did drone

And pulled a fine black casket through the streets

We told his grievin' wife

That he loved her more than life

And gave to his young son his father's sword



Now the people, they all dream

Of an Ireland free and green

Where nowhere can be heard the battle-cry

The fighting's gone too long

And it just drags on and on

I'd like to know some peace before I die