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T:The Sad Recruit [The White Cockade]
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
B:A Garland of Country Song, S Baring Gould and H Fleetwood Sheppard, 1895
Z:S Baring-Gould
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:G
G2 |G2 B2 d2 e2 |(d2B2) G2 (Bd) |c2 A2 B2 A2 | G4 z2
w:'Twas one mid-sum-mer morn--ing As_ I walked o'er the grass,
 G2 |G2 B2 d2 e2 |d2 B2 c2 d2 |e2 d2 c2 (Bc) | d4 z2
w:I nev-er thought of 'list-ing Till a sol-dier did me_ pass.
 G2 |G2 B2 d2 e2 |d2 B2 c2 d2 |e3 d c2 B2 | (A2B2)
w:He kind-ly did in-vite of me To drink a flow-ing bowl;_
c2 A2 |d2 d2 G2 F2 |E2 E2 c2 d2 |e2 e2 A2 F2 | F2 D2
w:He ad-vanc-ed, he ad-vanc-ed, he ad-vanc-ed, he ad-vanc-ed,
d2 d2 |d2 e2 d2 e2 |(d2B2) G2 (Bd) |c2 A2 B2 A2 | G4 z4 |]
w:He ad-vanc-ed me that morn--ing Five_ guin-eas in bright gold.
W:'Twas one midsummer morning,
W:As I walked o'er the grass,
W:I had no thought of 'listing
W:Till a soldier did me pass.
W:He kindly then invite of me
W:To drink a flowing bowl;
W:He advanced, he advanced,
W:He advanced, he advanced,
W:He advanced me that morning
W:Five guineas in bright gold.
W:
W:O may he never prosper,
W:O may he never thrive,
W:In anything he ventures
W:So long as he's alive.
W:The very grass he treads on
W:The ground refuse to grow,
W:For that he alone, for that he alone,
W:For that he alone, for that he alone,
W:For that he alone has caus-ed
W:My exile, grief and woe.
W:
W:O now that I'm enlisted
W:And parted from my love,
W:I'll write her name, and carve it,
W:Throughout the greenwood grove,
W:Where the hunter long doth holloo,
W:The hounds so sweetly cry,
W:To remind me, to remind me,
W:To remind me, to remind me,
W:To remind me of my true love
W:Until the day I die