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!
1782 · Poem
“I’ll Go and Be a Sodger”
- Year
- 1782
- Form
- Poem
- Location
- Lochlea
- Source
- Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns