Paudeen. Johnny Bacach is a good singer; it is what he used to be doing in the fairs, if the oakum of the gaol did not give him a hoarseness in the throat.
Andrew. Give it out so, a good song; a song will put courage and spirit into any man at all.
Johnny B. [singing].
Come, all ye airy bachelors,
A warning take by me:
A sergeant caught me fowling,
And fired his gun so free.
His comrades came to his relief,
And I was soon trepanned;
And, bound up like a woodcock,