{"id":893,"date":"2013-10-20T23:15:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T23:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=893"},"modified":"2014-10-20T23:16:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T23:16:35","slug":"the-death-of-betsy-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-death-of-betsy-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Betsy Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Betsy<\/a>
Betsy Grey – Presbyterian patriot who died for Ireland<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nOh, Erin mourns a daughter
\nWho was tragically cut away
\nA Scot of Ulster who for Ireland
\nWas killed one fateful day
\nHer hand cut off by a traitor
\nWho tried to apprehend her
\nShe used upon the English
\nTheir own cry of “No Surrender”
\nAnd though she was a lady
\nAnd her brother and lover offered to surrender to let her go
\nThe cowardly and brutal English
\nTheir good breeding they did show
\nAnd shot the men upon the spot
\nUpon which they did stand
\nAnd Jack Gill ever the gentle man
\nWith his sword cut off her hand
\nAnd Annahilt, the townland
\nCan boast two of her sons
\nThomas Nelson and James Little
\nIn the woman emptied their guns.<\/p>\n

Oh I’m sure England is proud of her valiant men
\nAnd of the brave deeds they did do
\nEven those of their own church
\nRefused to share their pew
\nAnd the petticoats of the murdered lady
\nAnd her jewelry too
\nWas worn by the womenfolk of the Little’s
\nAnd that by all was knew<\/p>\n

The siblings Gray, George and Betsy
\nAnd her lover Willie Boal we commemorate
\nFor they were true children of Erin
\nWithout fear they met their fate
\nThough their names are not well known
\nLike many of their kind
\nLet this verse for future generations
\nBring these Protestant Irish heroes to mind.
\nAnd when narrow minded bigots
\nIll of Scots and Protestants speak
\nTell them of Tandy, Mc Cracken and the Orr’s
\nAnd the Grays, and Boal: and tell them shut their beak!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, Erin mourns a daughter Who was tragically cut away A Scot of Ulster who for Ireland Was killed one fateful day Her hand cut off by a traitor Who tried to apprehend her She used upon the English Their own cry of “No Surrender” And though she was a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,1094],"tags":[561,1096,1097,1098,2370],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1798-rebellion","category-ulster-scots","tag-561","tag-betsy-grey","tag-the-hearts-of-down","tag-the-turn-oot","tag-ulster-scots","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-ep","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":186,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/bonfires-blaze-fueled-by-hate\/","url_meta":{"origin":893,"position":0},"title":"Bonfires Blaze Fueled by Hate","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"12th July 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Bonfires blaze, fueled by hate, but the bonfires are an Irish tradition (1) Political maze, each site prate, the other view with suspicion Ulster burns... 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