impromptu—“i'll go and be a sodger”

    o why the deuce should i repine,

    and be an ill foreboder?

    i'm twenty-three, and five feet nine,

    i'll go and be a sodger!

    i gat some gear wi' mickle care,

    i held it weel thegither;

    but now it's gane, and something mair—

    i'll go and be a sodger!