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y ranted an' they sang; Wi' jumping an' thumping The very girdle rang. [cake-pan] First, niest the fire, in auld red rags, [next] Ane sat, weel brac'd wi' mealy bags, An' knapsack a' in order; His doxy lay within his arm; [mistress] Wi' usquebae an blankets warm [whisky] She blinket on her sodger; [leered] An' aye he gies the tozie drab [flushed with drink] The tither skelpin' kiss, [smacking] While she held up her greedy gab, [mouth] Just like an aumous dish; [alms] Ilk smack still did crack still Just like a cadger's whip; [hawker's] Then, swaggering an' staggering, He roar'd this ditty up-- Air TUNE: Soldier's Joy I am a son of Mars, who have been in many wars, And show my cuts and scars wherever I come: This here was for a wench, and that other in a trench, When welcoming the French at the sound of the drum, Lal de daudle, &c. My 'prenticeship I past where my leader breath'd his last, When the bloody die was cast on the heights of Abram; And I serv'd out my trade when the gallant game was play'd, And the Moro low was laid at the sound of the drum. I lastly was with Curtis, among the floating batt'ries, And there I left for witness an arm and a limb: Yet let my country need me, with Elliot to head me, I'd clatter on my stamps at the sound of a drum. And now, tho' I must beg, with a wooden arm and leg, And many a tattered rag hanging over my bum, I'm as happy with my wallet, my bottle, and my callet, [trull] As when I used in scarlet to follow a drum. What tho' with hoary locks I must stand the winter shocks, Beneath the woods and rocks oftentimes for a home? When the t'other bag I sell, and the t'other bottle tell, I could meet a troop of hell at the sound of the drum. Recitativo He ended; and the kebars sheuk [rafters shook] Aboon the chorus roar; [Above] While frighted rattons backward leuk, [rats, look] An' seek the benmos
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