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!