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SOLDIER MAID OR RUB A DUB A DUB When I was a fair maid at the age of sweet sixteen From my parents I did run away a soldier to become I enlisted in the army a soldier for to be And they learnt me tae play upon the rub a dub a dee With my nice cap and feathers if you only could have seen You'd have sworn in your very heart a young man I had been With my gentle waist so slender and my fingers long and small I could rattle up the rub a dub a dee the best of them all Oh many is the prank I played upon the field And many was the young man his love to me revealed Many a prank have I seen among the French And so boldly I fought, though only a wench With my regiment at the front all the time I might have been With the brave Duke of York at the siege of Valenciennes But was favored by my officer for fear I might be slain I was sent home to England for recruiting back again Many a night in the guard room I have lain I never was afraid to lie down with the men At the pulling off my breeches I oftimes gave a smile To think I lay with a regiment, and a maiden all the while That might never have been known until this very hour But they sent me up to London to keep sentry in the Tower A lady fell in love with me, I told her I was a maid She went to my officer, and the secret she betrayed My officer sent for me to see if that was true I told him that it was - What else could I do I told him it was and he smiled at me and said It's a pity for to lose you, such a drummer as you made But for your valiant conduct at the siege of Valciennes A bounty you shall get my girl, a bounty from the king But should the wars arise again and the King be wanting men I'll put on my regimentals and I'll fight for him again @soldier @transvestite @music recorded by Frankie Armstrong on Music Plays So Grand Roy Harris on Rambling Soldier Watersons in Yorkshire Garland filename[ SOLDMAID TUNE FILE: SOLDMAID CLICK TO PLAY SOF |
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