When I was driven from my home by Anna precious
hand
I cut my sticks and greased my brogues, and came
o'er to this land

And the verse:

Now when the traitors in the south commenced a
warlike raid,
I quickly laid down my hod

The story:

the words "and the verse" are not the lyrics but
saying that I misherd two different verses in this
song. Firstly I can still make out "Anna precious"
but know now the right lyrics

I can still hear "Spenna went" and often wondered
who this "spenna" guy was who joined with the Irish
Sixty-Ninth as many of the people David Kincaid sand
about on his two Civil War albums were real people.