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Oh, me and my cousin, one Arthur McBride |
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As we went a-walking down by the seaside |
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Now, mark what followed and what did betide |
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For it being on Christmas morning |
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Out for recreation, we went on a tramp |
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And we met Sergeant Napper and Corporal Vamp |
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And a little wee drummer, intending to camp |
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For the day being pleasant and charming |
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"Good morning, good morning!", the sergeant did cry |
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"And the same to you, gentlemen!", we did reply |
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Intending no harm but meant to pass by |
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For it being on Christmas morning |
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But says he, "My fine fellows if you will enlist |
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It's ten guineas in gold I will slip in your fist |
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And a crown in the bargain for to kick up the dust |
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And drink the King's health in the morning" |
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"For a soldier he leads a very fine life |
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And he always is blessed with a charming young wife |
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And he pays all his debts without sorrow or strife |
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And always lives pleasant and charming" |
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"And a soldier he always is decent and clean |
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In the finest of clothing he's constantly seen |
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While other poor fellows go dirty and mean |
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And sup on thin gruel in the morning" |
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"But", says Arthur, "I wouldn't be proud of your clothes |
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For you've only the lend of them as I suppose |
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And you dare not change them one night, for you know |
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If you do you'll be flogged in the morning" |
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"And although that we are single and free |
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We take great delight in our own company |
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And we have no desire strange faces to see |
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Although that your offers are charming" |
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"And we have no desire to take your advance |
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All hazards and dangers we barter on chance |
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For you would have no scruples for to send us to France |
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Where we would get shot without warning" |
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"Oh now!", says the sergeant, "I'll have no such chat |
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And I neither will take it from spalpeen or brat |
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For if you insult me with one other word |
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I'll cut off your heads in the morning" |
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And then Arthur and I we soon drew our hods |
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And we scarce gave them time for to draw their own blades |
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When a trusty shillelagh came over their heads |
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And bade them take that as fair warning |
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And their old rusty rapiers that hung by their side |
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We flung them as far as we could in the tide |
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"Now take them out, Divils!", cried Arthur McBride |
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"And temper their edge in the morning" |
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And the little wee drummer we flattened his pow |
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And we made a football of his rowdeydowdow |
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Threw it in the tide for to rock and to row |
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And bade it a tedious returning |
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And we having no money, paid them off in cracks |
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And we paid no respect to their two bloody backs |
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For we lathered them there like a pair of wet sacks |
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And left them for dead in the morning |
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And so to conclude and to finish disputes |
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We obligingly asked if they wanted recruits |
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For we were the lads who would give them hard clouts |
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And bid them look sharp in the morning |
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Oh me and my cousin, one Arthur McBride |
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As we went a walkin' down by the seaside |
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Now mark what followed and what did betide |
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For it being on Christmas morning |
