Right you are, Sandy. There on p. 147 of Traditional Folk Songs from the Anne & Frank Warner Collection is the copyright "Collected, Adapted and Arranged by Bob Gibson, Bob Camp and Frank Warner."

Here are the words as printed...

GILGARRAH MOUNTAIN

As I was goin' over Gilgarrah Mountain,
I met Colonel Pepper and his money he was counting.
I rattled my pistols and drew forth my saber,
"Stand and deliver, for I am a bold deceiver,"

CHO: Musha ringum durum da,
Wack fol the daddy o,
Wack fol the daddy o,
There's whiskey in the jar.

Them shiny golden coins sure did look bright and jolly,
I took the money home, and I gave it to my Molly.
She promised and vowed she never would deceive me,
But the Devil's in the women and they never can be easy.

I returned to my cave in Gilgarrah Mountain,
And left my sweetheart Molly the money a-counting.
As I was soundly sleeping, the divil sure may take her,
She fired off my pistols and she loaded them with pepper.

She told Colonel Pepper where I was a-hiding,
And led them to my cave right early in the morning.
O Molly, you've deceived me, although I loved you dearly,
But you never cared for me; I can see it bright and clearly.

Now I awakened between six and seven,
Guards were around me in numbers odd and even.
I flew to my pistols, but alas I was mistaken,
For I fired off my pistols and a prisoner I was taken.

They put me into jail, without a judge or writing,
For robbing Colonel Pepper up on Gilgarrah Mountain;
But they didn't take me fists, so I knocked the sentry down,
And I bid a long farewell to the jail in Sligo town.

Now some takes delight in the fishing and bowling;
Others takes delight in the carriages a-rolling;
But I takes delight in the fruit of the barley
Courting pretty girls in the morning so early.

Well, the Gilgarrah Mountain was not in Munster (Kerry, Tipperary, etc.), not if our highwayman was taken in his cave there and lodged in Sligo jail.

"There's Whiskey in the Jar" appears in Colm O Lochlainn's great book of (mostly) broadsides, Irish Street Ballads. For those who care, he has "Kerry mountain," "Captain Farrell" and "Jenny." He also includes the verse...

If any one can aid me 'tis me brother in the army
If I could learn his station, in Cork or in Killarney.
And if he'd come and join me we'd go roving in Killkenny
I'll engage he'd treat me fairer than my darling sporting Jenny.

I recall Liam saying words to this effect once while I was in the Air Force.

All the best,
Dan HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 11-Jul-02.