Pretty Young Soldier Lyrics - Sting

There are two young lovers, they're pledged to each other's hands 

They meet by the river, to talk of their marriage plans 

"I'm confessing," he said, "I've signed for a soldier 

I'm leaving tomorrow for some foreign land." 

She watches the pretty young soldiers 

As they march themselves off to the war 

She wonders if she'll ever see him again 

Somehow she doubts it, but she has to be sure 

So she rode into town on the very next day 

And dressed herself up all in man's array 

With a sword and a musket she took the King's shilling 

And to fight in some foreign war 

She said, "Yes!," she'd be willing 

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All you pretty young soldiers 

In those uniforms that you've never worn 

The Captain will come to inspect you all now 

"Let me down and you'll all wish you'd never been born." 

The Captain astride of his horse's grey flanks 

Pulls the pretty young soldier from out of the ranks 

His gaze it is fixed and she's starting to shake 

He said, "Follow me soldier and listen to the offer that I'm willing to make." 

"Come you pretty young soldier 

Come and be my right hand 

You're having this strange effect on my soul 

That I don't quite understand." 

"Captain, oh Captain, I've a confession to make 

I love someone else and my heart it will break." 

And as she released her brown hair from a band 

It tumbled all down her shoulders and into his hands 

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"Oh you pretty young soldier 

Come and take my right hand 

You're having this strange effect on my soul 

And now I think, I understand."