{"id":9180,"date":"2023-02-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9180"},"modified":"2023-02-16T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T06:00:00","slug":"soldier-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/soldier-soldier\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldier, Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From The Birmingham Age Herald, February 16, 1915<\/a>. By Rudyard Kipling.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cSoldier, soldier, come from the wars,    Why don’t you march with my true love?\u201d\u201cWe’re fresh from off the ship an’ ‘e’s maybe give the slip,    An’ you’d best go look for a new love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cNew love! True love!    Best go look for a new love:The dead they cannot rise, an\u2019 you’d better dry your eyes,    An\u2019 you’d best go look for a new love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cSoldier, soldier come from the wars,    What did you see o\u2019 my true love?\u201d\u201cI seed \u2018im serve the Queen in a suit o\u2019 rifle green,    An\u2019 you\u2019d best go look for a new love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cSoldier, soldier, come from the wars,    Did ye see no more o\u2019 my true love?\u201d\u201cI seed \u2018im runnin\u2019 by when the shots began to fly\u2014    But you\u2019d best go look for a new love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cSoldier, soldier, come from the wars,    Did aught take ‘arm to my true love?\u201d\u201cI couldn’t see the fight, for the smoke it lay so white\u2014    An\u2019 you’d best go look for a new love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cSoldier, soldier, come from the wars,    I’ll up an\u2019 tend to my true love!\u201d\u201c\u2018E\u2019s lying on the dead with a bullet through \u2018is \u2018ead,    An\u2019 you\u2019d best go look for a new love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cSoldier, soldier, come from the wars,    I\u2019ll down an\u2019 die with my true love!\u201d\u201cThe pit we dug\u2019ll \u2018ide \u2018im an\u2019 the twenty men beside \u2018im\u2014    An\u2019 you\u2019d best go look for a new love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cSoldier, soldier, come from the wars,    Do you bring no sign from my true love?\u201d\u201cI bring a lock of \u2018air that \u2018e allus used to wear,    An\u2019 you\u2019d best go look for a new love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cSoldier, soldier, come from the wars,    O then I know it\u2019s true I\u2019ve lost my true love!\u201d\u201cAn\u2019 I tell you truth again\u2014when you\u2019ve lost the feel o\u2019 pain    You\u2019d best take me for your true love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

True love! New love!    Best take \u2018im for a new love.The dead they cannot rise, an\u2019 you\u2019d better dry your eyes,    An\u2019 you\u2019d best take \u2018im for your true love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Birmingham Age Herald, February 16, 1915. By Rudyard Kipling. \u201cSoldier, soldier, come from the wars,    Why don’t you march with my true love?\u201d\u201cWe’re fresh from off the ship an’ ‘e’s maybe give the slip,    An’ you’d best go look for a new love. \u201cNew love! True love!    Best go look for a new love:The dead they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-9180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-rudyard-kipling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}