it was the SOLDIER not her husband who beat and kicked her -


People asked her where she was going,
She made not an answer, she couldn't say where,
For she'd been away to sea with the soldier.

When Peggy got back, it was late in the night,
And she was ashamed to be seen,
It was under the window she's listened a while,
To her husband a-nursing the baby.

"Now hushaba little one and don't you cry,
For your momma's gone and left you in sorrow,