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!