What's the matter with you,
and where's your dashing Jimmy?
The soldier boys have picked him up
and sent him far, far from me.
Last payday he came into town,
and them red -coated fellows
En ticed him in, and made him drunk,
The very sight of his cockade,
It sets my heart a -cryin',
And me, I nearly fainted twice,
I thought that I would die.
My father could have paid that smart,
and he ran for a golden guinea.
But the sergeant swore he'd kiss a book,
so now they've got young Jimmy.
When Jimmy talks about the wars,
it's worse than deaf to hear him.
I must go out and hide my tears,
because I cannot bear them.
A brigadier, a grenadier,
he says they're sure to make him.
But I, he jibes and cracks his jokes,
he begs me to forsake him.
As I walk o 'er this stubble field,
below it runs a coal seam.
I think of Jimmy Hewon there,
He hewed the very coal we burn,
and when the fire I'm lighten,
To think the lumps was in his hands,
it sets my heart a -beatin'.
so break my heart, my dearie,
For I lie in the cold green ground,
for a single life I'm weary.
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