Annotation:Dan Kelly's Perjury

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 DAN KELLY'S PERJURY. Irish, Slow Air (4/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "There was a Ninety-eight song to this air" (Joyce). It begins: I am in close confinement and no hopes of liberty Condemned to death for treason before his majesty. In Collon I was taken being on the third of June The Drogheda guards conveyed me to where I met my doom I lived in expectation that the speaker'd set me free, But I received my sentence from Dan Kelly's perjury. Tom Hand he acted as a foe, tho' he favored me that day When in walks Dan Kelly and he swore my life away He swore I had 10,000 men all at my command Just ready to assist the French as soon as they would land. He swore I was united to support the unuon cause And the jury cried out Boylan you must die by martial laws  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 580, p. 304.  Recorded sources:

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