作曲 : Traditional arranged by David Kincaid
 You feeling Christians both one and all
 Come pay attention unto my call
 Until you hear my doleful tragedy
 Of these two brothers all in Americay
 James and Patrick Masterson as you may see
 In Ballymena were reared most tenderly
 They left their loving parents on a woeful day
 To seek their fortune all in Americay
 In '58 they sailed away
 Bound for New Orleans in Americay
 But mark what followed without delay
 For the war broke out on a woeful day
 To take up arms they were forced to fight
 Through fatigue and hardships both day and night
 With savage blocks they could not agree
 Where in the regiment, proved their destiny
 They were punished severely in that savage corps
 And often flogged till left in their gore
 They often thought of their friends so dear
 They left lamenting and to shed a tear
 To desert this regiment they were inclined
 For to reach the north they made up their minds
 By nighted travel for to make their way
 And in the woods they lay, concealed by day
 For three long days they could not be found
 At length the picket did them would surround
 They were taken prisoners with handcuffs bound
 And by a court martial they were guilty found
 By a court martial as you soon shall hear
 Their sentence was to be flogged severe
 When Patrick Masterson got loose that day
 He shot the colonel without delay
 The guards immediately did him surround
 Been tried and sentenced and guilty found
 A scaffold now erected in the square
 And his brother pitched upon, to hang him there
 James Masterson was called immediately
 To hang his brother he would not agree
 "Before I'd yield to such cruelty
 I will die beside him on a gallows tree"
 A wild black sergeant proposed to do the deed
 To hang the brothers he went up with speed
 Now all being ready he stood on the fall
 And James he shot him with a pistol ball
 They both were sentenced and condemned to die
 And hanged that day on a gallows high
 Farewell Ould Ireland, our native home
 We here must die in our youth and bloom
 Those two brothers met their sad downfall
 They were lamented by their comrades all
 From friends and parents far far away
 They have suffered death and curse in South Americay