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Thread #36510   Message #1093912
Posted By: Joe Offer
16-Jan-04 - 03:53 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Soldier and the Sailor (Soldier's Prayer)
Subject: ADD Version: Soldier and the Sailor
MMario posted the version from Kennedy in the first message. Here's the version from Doerflinger's Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman.
-Joe Offer-

The Soldier and the Sailor

The soldier and the sailor went a-walking one day,
Said the sailor to the soldier, "I've a good mind to pray
For the rights of all people and the wrongs of all men,
May the Devil double-double-triple-damn them!"
Said the soldier, "Amen."

"Now here's to those lawyers, they'll plead for your cause,
They'll take your hard earnings and give you hard laws.
They'll send you to jail at last, and there to remain.
May the Devil double-double-triple-damn them!"
Said the soldier, "Amen."

"Here's to the ministers, they'll preach and they'll pray,
They'll take your hard earnings and fool it away.
They'll send you to hell at last, and there to remain.
May the Devil double-double-triple-damn them!"
Said the soldier, "Amen."

"Now here's to the farmer that follows his plough
And gets his hard earnings by the sweat of his brow.
Here's a health to the sailor and the soldier the same.
May the good God Almighty help them!"
And they both said, "Amen."

As sung by Captain Henry Burke aboard the Canadian three-mast schooner Leo le Blanc.