Female Drummer Songtext

von Steeleye Span

I was brought up in Yorkshire and when I was six - teen
Oh I ran away to London and a soldier I be - came.
With my fine cap and feather like-wise me rattling drum
They learned me to play upon the rub-a-dub-a-dum.

With my fine cap and feather like - wise me rattling drum
They learned me to play upon the rub-a-dub-a-dum.
With me gentle waist so slend - er and me fingers long and small
To play up - on the rub-a-dub the best of them all.

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And so many were the pranks that I saw among he French
And so boldly did I fight me boys although I'm but a wench.
And in buttoning up me trousers so often have I smiled
To think I lay with a thousand men and a maiden all the while.

With my fine cap and feather like - wise me rattling drum
They learned me to play upon the rub-a-dub-a-dum.
With me gentle waist so slend - er and me fingers long and small
To play up - on the rub-a-dub the best of them all.

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But they never found my secret out until this very hour
When they sent me off to London to keep sentry at the tower.
And a young girl fell in love with me and she found that I was a maid
She went up to my officer and my secret she betrayed.

With my fine cap and feather like - wise me rattling drum
They learned me to play upon the rub-a-dub-a-dum.
With me gentle waist so slend - er and me fingers long and small
To play up - on the rub-a-dub the best of them all.

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They unbuttoned my red tunic and he found that it was true
It's a shame he says to lose a pretty drummer boy like you.
So now I must return to me mum and dad at home
And along with me bold comrades it's no longer will I roam.

With my fine cap and feather like - wise me rattling drum
They learned me to play upon the rub-a-dub-a-dum.
With me gentle waist so slend - er and me fingers long and small
To play up - on the rub-a-dub the best of them all.