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#pulled out the old version of this song listed as probably 1815-22 bc it's fun that it & the events of the book are roughly contemporary #this print I mean the song is abt the napoleonic wars #probably.#thoughts #les mis #arthur mcbride #<- that's the song btw since I forgot to say #trans. hapgood

Almost Irish and Chris McMullan - Arthur McBride

I had a first cousin called Arthur MacBride. He and I took a stroll down by the seaside A-seekin' good fortune and what might betide, 'T was just as the day was a-dawnin'. Then, after restin', we both took a tramp, We met Sergeant Harper and Corporal Cramp Besides the wee drummer who beat up for camp With his rowdy-dow-dow in the morning.

He says: "My bold fellows, if you will enlist, A guinea you quickly will get in your fist, Besides a crown for to kick up the dust And drink the king's health in the morning. For a soldier he leads a very fine life, He always is blessed with a charming young wife, And he pays all his debts without sorrow or strife, And always lives happy and charming."

"Oh now, me bold sergeant, we are not for sale. We'll make no such bargain, and your bribe won't avail. We're not tired of our country, we don't care to sail, Although that your offer is charming. But if we'd been such fools as to take the advance, It's right bloody slender would be our poor chance, For you'd have no scruple but to send us to France Where we would be shot without warning."

"Well now, my bold fellows, if I hear but one word, I instantly now will out with my sword And into your bodies as strength will afford. So now, my gay devils, take warning." But Arthur and I, we took the odds, We gave them no chance for to launch out their swords. Our whacking shillelaghs came over their heads And paid them right smart in the morning.

As for the wee drummer, we rifled his pouch, We made a football of his rowdy-dow-dow And into the ocean to rock and to roll, And bade it a tedious returning. As for the old rapier that hung by his side, We flung it as far as we could in the tide. "To the devil I pit you", says Arthur MacBride, "To temper your steel in the morning!"

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