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!