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The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata (第2/7页)
y bum, i'm as happy with my wallet, my bottle, and my callet, as when i used in scarlet to follow a drum. what tho' with hoary locks, i must stand the winter shocks, beh the woods and rocks oftentimes for a home, whe' i sell, and the t'other bottle tell, i could meet a troop of hell, at the sound of a drum. recitativo he ended; and the kebars sheuk, aboon the chorus roar; while frighted rattons backward leuk, ahe benmost bore: a fairy fiddler frae the neuk, he skirl'd out, encore! but up arose the martial chuck, an' laid the loud uproar. air tune—“sodger laddie.” 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 laddie, sing, lal de lal, c. the first of my loves was a swaggering blade, 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 laddie. but the godly old chaplai him in the lurch; the sword i forsook for the sake of the church: he ventur'd the soul, and i risked the body, 'twas then i proved false to my sodger laddie. full soon i grew siy sanctified sot, the regiment at large for a husband i got; from the gilded spontoon to the fife i was ready, i asked no more but a sodger laddie. but the peace it reduc'd me to beg in despair, till i met old boy in a ingham fair, his rags regimental, they flutter'd so gaudy, my heart it rejoic'd at a sodger laddie. and now i have liv'd—i know not how long, and still i join in a cup and a song; but whilst with both hands i hold the glass steady, here's to thee, my hero, my sodger laddie. recitativo poor me