"The Croppy Boy" is an Irish ballad set in 1798 rising relating to the despair of a doomed young "croppy" or rebel during the 1798 Rising. "Croppies" wore their hair cut close to the head as a token of sympathy with the French Revolution. Versions of the ballad first appeared shortly after the rising sung by street peddlers and there are several broadside songs printed. There are two songs called "The Croppy Boy", both of which derive from the Rebellion of 1798. The more literary of the two was written by William B. McBurney, who used the pseudonym Carroll Malone, and concerns a Croppy who seeks confession from a priest, only to find that the ‘priest’ is a yeoman officer in disguise. This version is a street ballad which predates Malone's and is much less literary in style. It is similar to the Child ballad "The Maid Freed from the Gallows" and with the Ulster song "The Streets of Derry". All three are progressive execution songs with rejection by the family as a significant motif. This version is from the Clancy Brothers. It is the same lyric as printed in Galvin. It was printed in Galvin's Irish Songs of Resistance. It was recorded by Louis Killen on A Bonny Bunch, The Dubliners on More of the Hard Stuff and The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem on The Rising of the Moon and 20 Greatest Ever Irish Rebel Songs, Vol. 1. Songs from Irish uprisings and rebellion in this collection are: "Bold Fenian Men" "Boulavogue" "The Boyne Water" "The Boys of Kilmichael" "Croppies Lie Down" "Kevin Barry" "The Old Orange Flute" "The Protestant Boys" "The Rising of the Moon" "The Wearing of the Green" "The Wind That Shakes the Barley"