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O why the deuce should I repine, / And be an ill foreboder? / I'm twenty-three, and five feet nine, / I'll go and be a sodger!
I gat some gear wi' mickle care, / I held it weel thegither; / But now it's gane, and something mair- / I'll go and be a sodger!