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| SOLDIER, soldier come from the wars, | |
| “Why don’t you march with my true love?” | |
| “We’re fresh from off the ship an’ ’e’s, maybe, give the slip, | |
| “An’ you’d best go look for a new love.” | |
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| New love! True love! | 5 |
| Best go look for a new love, | |
| The dead they cannot rise, an’ you’d better dry your eyes, | |
| An’ you’d best go look for a new love. | |
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| “Soldier, soldier come from the wars, | |
| “What did you see o’ my true love?” | 10 |
| “I seen ’im serve the Queen in a suit o’ rifle-green, | |
| “An’ you’d best go look for a new love.” | |
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| “Soldier, soldier come from the wars, | |
| “Did ye see no more o’ my true love?” | |
| “I seen ’im runnin’ by when the shots begun to fly— | 15 |
| “But you’d best go look for a new love.” | |
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| “Soldier, soldier come from the wars, | |
| “Did aught take ’arm to my true love?” | |
| “I couldn’t see the fight, for the smoke it lay so white— | |
| “And you’d best go look for a new love.” | 20 |
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| “Soldier, soldier come from the wars, | |
| “I’ll up an’ tend to my true love!” | |
| “’E’s lying on the dead with a bullet through ’is ’ead, | |
| “An’ you’d best go look for a new love.” | |
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| “Soldier, soldier come from the wars, | 25 |
| “I’ll down an’ die with my true love!” | |
| “The pit we dug’ll ’ide ’im an’ the twenty more beside ’im— | |
| “An’ you’d best go look for a new love.” | |
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| “Soldier, soldier come from the wars, | |
| “Do you bring no sign from my true love?” | 30 |
| “I bring a lock of ’air that ’e allus used to wear, | |
| “An’ you’d best go look for a new love.” | |
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| “Soldier, soldier come from the wars, | |
| “O then I know it’s true I’ve lost my true love!” | |
| “An’ I tell you truth again—when you’ve lost the feel o’ pain | 35 |
| “You’d best take me for your new love.” | |
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| True love! New love! | |
| Best take ’im for a new love, | |
| The dead they cannot rise, an’ you’d better dry your eyes | |
| An’ you’d best take ’im for your new love. | 40 |
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