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Are you going for a soldier with your curly yellow hair, / And a scarlet coat instead of the smock you used to wear? / Are you going to drive the foe as you used to drive the plough? / Are you going for a soldier now?
I am going for a soldier, and my tunic is of red / And I'm tired of woman's chatter, and I'll hear the drum instead; / I will break the fighting line as you broke your plighted vow, / For I'm going for a soldier now.
For a soldier, for a soldier are you sure that you will go, / To hear the drums a-beating and to hear the bugles blow? / I'll make you sweeter music, for I'll swear another vow -- / Are you going for a soldier now?
I am going for a soldier if you'd twenty vows to make; / You must get another sweetheart, with another heart to break, / For I'm sick of lies and women and the harrow and the plough, / And I'm going for a soldier now!