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VI
Lancer

I 'listed at home for a lancer,
 Oh who would not sleep with the brave?
I 'listed at home for a lancer
 To ride on a horse to my grave.

And over the seas we were bidden
 A country to take and to keep;
And far with the brave I have ridden,
 And now with the brave I shall sleep.

For round me the men will be lying
 That learned me the way to behave,
And showed me my business of dying:
 Oh who would not sleep with the brave?

They ask and there is not an answer;
Says I, I will 'list for a lancer,
 Oh who would not sleep with the brave?

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