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Willie Nelson was a sixteen year old during the time of the 1798 Rebellion.
He lived in Ballycarry (the townland of the weir), with his mother and family.
He was hung from a tree outside the family home for taking horses to Donegore Hill shortly before the battle of Antrim.
I believe that the local landowner and magistrate sentenced the boy to death to make an example of him. It caused a lot of bad feeling in the area as many Presbyterians had rallied to the call for pikemen.
Oh Willie Nelson what can you do?
They’ve captured your world.
They’ve done captured you.
For taking some horses up Donegore Hill.
Looks like you will die in the morning.
Chorus.
Oh Willie, oh Willie Nelson.
Oh Willie, Willie my boy
Come to me all of my children.
Won’t you come to me
Won’t you come to me
Come to me now.
Old Carrickfergus was where he was sent
To lie in the jail
To say his amens
But the morning is coming.
He’s ringin’ his bell
And Death’s on his way with some stories to tell.
Chorus.
Over the hedgerows and over the river.
A misty old morning that makes a boy cold.
They’re making the gallows
From your family tree.
To play there once more
So your mother can see.
Chorus.
End.
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