The tune was requested in this thread: t, presumably by the same person. I'm posting it here, and maybe a mudelf will combine the threads.

The song, as Martin says, is in O'Lochlainn's More Irish Street Ballads as No.58A and is to be sung to the tune of No.58 - Sweet Jenny of the Moor. I've put the words to that tune making (I think only 1) very minor alterations to the tune to fit the words (G3->G2 G on captain; I corrected the penultimate bar given as F E on Jenny in my copy to F2 E to give the bar the correct length).

O'Lochlainn's notes the No.58 are: "The Hackler tune from Irish Street Ballads No. 39, it resembles 'An Spealdóir' or 'Abhrán na Leabhar'. ** From an old ballad collection undated except for the reference to the battle of Alma in the Crimea".

Mick

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X:1
T:The Piper of Crossbarry
B:O'Lochlainn:More Irish Street Ballads No.58A
N:The tune is from No.58 Sweet Jenny of the Moor
L:1/8
M:6/8
K:C Aeo
G|C2 D E2 F|G2 c c2 d|c2 B G2 F|G3-G2
w:The Pip-er of Cross-bar-ry boys, he rose ere morn-ing tide,_
G|C2 D E2 F|G2 G G2 G|F2 G F2 D|B,3- B,2
w:He walked up to his cap-tain bold, his war-pipes laid a-side,_
D|C2 D E2 F|(G2 c) c2 d|e2 c d2 B|c3-c2
w:Says he, "I'm through with pip_ing, I'll fight for lib-er-ty,_
(c/d/)|e2 d c2 B|G2 G G2 G|F2 E C2 C|C3-C2||
w:To_day, please God, we'll hold the sod, and set old Ire-land free."_