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If you see them in the night
Turn away, avert your sight
‘Cos thinkin’ on their necks to save
Cloaked Men will dig your shallow grave!

Thirty hundredweight in leaves
Ploughing through September seas
Stood upon a shadowed shore
Cloaked Men wait for gin, and more

The Revenue Ship attacks and then
Three Brothers lost but not the men
Stood on cliffs with saddled steeds
The Cloaked Men ponder darker deeds…

Through sunken roads they mount the raids
Those thirty men through forest glade
If you see them on their midnight race
Remember not a single face
Tonight!

They regroup on the evening tide
Low on contraband and pride
At the inn they catch their breath
The Cloaked Men talk revenge – and death

Those brazen men ride through the Shire
Armed with guns and lit by fire
Full of ale and riding South
The Cloaked Men raid the Customs House

Chorus

If you see them in the night
Turn away, avert your sight
‘Cos thinkin’ on their necks to save
Cloaked Men will dig your shallow grave!

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from While The Blackthorn Burns (Digital Edition), released April 26, 2014

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