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He left me last night, an' "Maggie" says he,

"It's meself an' yerself mam that couldn't agree,

Be dang but I'll go for a sojer!"

He took all the cash that I had in the till,

I followed him round to the butt of the hill,

"Go back, or yerself is the first that I'll kill!"

Says he, "Whin I'm gone for a sojer!"

I hung to his neck, an' I axed him to stay,