The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata
fairy fiddler frae the neuk,
he skirl'd out, encore!
but up arose the martial chuck,
an' id the loud uproar.
air
tune—“sodger ddie.”
i once was a maid, tho' i ot tell when,
and still my delight is in proper young men;
some one of a troop oons was my daddie,
no wonder i'm fond of a sodger ddie,
sing, l de l, &c.
the first of my loves was a swaggering bde,
to rattle the thundering drum was his trade;
his leg was so tight, and his cheek was so ruddy,
transported i was with my sodger ddie.
but the godly old chapi him in the lurch
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