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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
RangerSteve	Wrap Me Up In My Tarpaulin Jacket (56* d)	Wrap Me Up In My Tarpaulin Jacket	05 Jan 13
I found a great song on Youtube by Frank Crumit called "Wrap Me Up In My Tarpaulin Jacket". It's apparently a British song, along the lines of "Streets of Laredo", This time about a dying soldier. The soldier keeps referring to himself as a "buffer" as in the line from the chorus "Wrap me up in my tarpaulin jacket, and say a poor buffer lies low". My question is, what's a buffer in this context? You folks haven't let me down yet, so I'm waiting for an answer and thanks in advance.

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