We have a lot of disagreement on the lyrics of this song. It's clear that the transcription in the Digital Tradition needs work but what do we replace it with? Can we come up with a definitive transcription and post it here?
-Joe-

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I'm going to do something dangerous to life and limb and post MY transcription of the Dubliners recording, (which is based on the transcription above by Mick Lowe, as well as the many other transcriptions above). More accurately, it's a composite of all the transcriptions above, not the work of any one of us.

And since Little John Cameron and Murray said "weans", I'm saying "weans."
I'm not decided on "is nae saft" or "is'na saft" - which is better?

I gather from other posts that Billy Connolly is singing lead on the Dubliners recording.
Any corrections?
-Joe-

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I'M ASKING YOU SERGEANT, WHERE'S MINE?
(Billy Connolly)

I'm lying in bed, I'm in room 26,
Thinking on things that I've done;
Like drinking with squaddies and bulling my boots,
And counting the medals I've won.
These hospital wards, they're all drab-looking joints,
But the ceiling's as much as I see;
They could do with a wee touch o' paper or paint,
But then again maybe that's me.

CHORUS:
Oh sergeant, is this the adventure you meant
When I put my name down on the line?
All that talk of computers and sunshine and skis,
All I'm asking you, sergeant, where's mine?

I've a brother in Glasgow with long, curly hair,
When I joined up he said I was daft;
He says shooting strangers just is nae his game,
That brother of mine is nae saft.
But I can put up with most things I've done in my time,
I can even put up with the pains;
But what do you do with a gun in your hand,
When you're faced with a hundred-odd weans?

CHORUS (three times):
Oh sergeant, is this the adventure you meant
When I put my name down on the line?
All that talk of computers and sunshine and skis,
All I'm asking you, sergeant, where's mine?


From the Dubliners CD, Thirty Years A-Greying

The tune is a variant of "Fareweel Tae the Creeks", by Pipe Major James Robertson of Banff, which is the tune Hamish Henderson used for "The 51st Highland Division's Farewell to Sicily."

@Army @Scottish

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