what s the matter with you me lass and where s your dashing jimmy them soldier boys have picked him up and taken him far from me last payday he went into town and them red coated fellows enticed him in and made him drunk and he d better gone to the gallows the very sight of his cockade it sets us all a cryin and me i nearly fainted twice i thought that i was dyin me father said he d pay the smart and he d run for the golden guinea but the sergeant swore he kissed the book so now they ve got young jimmy when jimmy talks about the wars it s worse than death to hear him i must go out to hide me tears because i cannot bear him a brigadier or a grenadier he says they re sure to make him so now he jibes and cracks his jokes and bids me not forsake him as i walked o er yon stubbled field below where runs the seam i think on jimmy hewing there but it was all a dream he hewed the very coils we burn so when this fire i m lighten to think the lumps was in his hands it sets me heart a beating so break me heart and then it s o er oh break me heart me dearie as i lie in this cold cold bed of the single life i m weary 