As I was a goin’ over the far famed Kerry mountains I met with captain Farrell and his money he was counting I first produced my pistol and I then produced my rapier Saying “Stand and deliver” for he were a bold deceiver Chorus: Mush-a ring dum-a do dum-a da Wack fall the daddy-o, wack fall the daddy-o There’s whiskey in the jar .
This is the story of a man who is thief and the woman who betrays him by turning him in. The cables up the side are the mountains. nd the lace cables are the drunken path he walks.