Martin Carthy also sang it in the mid-60's It seems to have been printed in 1960: The Everlasting Circle: English traditional verse James Reeves Heinemann, 1960 page 151: 64 High Germany "Your parents they will be angry if along with me you will gang My friends I do not value, nor my foes I do not fear, But along with my jolly soldier boy I will ramble far and near. It's gold shall never deceive me nor any other man,but along with you I will go For to fight the French or the Spaniards or any other..." I can't see any more online
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