Arthur Macbride Lyrics - Singles - Enter The Haggis

Me and me cousin, one Arthur McBride, he and I took a stroll, down by the seaside 

A seek for good fortune and what might be tide, bein' just as the day was a dawnin' 

And then after restin' we both took a tramp, and met Sgt. Harper and Cpl. Cram, besides the wee drummer, who beat up the camp, with his row-de-dow-dow in the mornin' 

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Count me out of your fortune and fame, I would rather be here than be slain, This is where I'll die, Lost in the moss of the isle. 

He says 'My young fellows, if you will enlist, a Guinea you quickly will have in your fist 

Besides a Crown for to kick up the dust and drink the King's health in the morning' 

Had we been such fools as to take the advance the wee bitter morning we had run to chance 

For you'd think it no scruple to send us to France where we would be killed in the morning 

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