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Thread #124022   Message #2736530
Posted By: Jim Carroll
02-Oct-09 - 07:46 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Deserter (from Wiggy Smith)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Deserter variant
Steve,
We got a garbled fragment of it from a Wexford Traveller.
I think it's called 'No More I'll Go Soldiering'.
For what it's worth

No More I'd Go Soldiering.        
Rec from Andy Cash

In the year '64 boys one morning in May
As I boarded for Queenstown to sail o'er the main.
It's many of young fellows take a warning by me
Take a friendly advice and a warning by me,
Oh if I had my own home and sweet liberty
No more I'd go soldiering by land or by sea.
         
Oh once in the army all trouble do gain
And a man could do well if he knew the right way.
Oh the black men and white men all trouble do gain
It's the first I'm going the bars every day.

When I was a young fellow and in my prime
I was fond of night rambling likewise of me beer.
But if' I had my own home and sweet liberty
It's no more I'd go soldiering by land or by sea.

Jim Carroll