WHERE is my Johnnie acushla?" says she,

He left me last night, an' "Maggie" says he,

"It's meself an' yerself mam that couldn't agree,

Be dang but I'll go for a sojer!"

He took all the cash that I had in the till,

I followed him round to the butt of the hill,

"Go back, or yerself is the first that I'll kill!"

Says he, "Whin I'm gone for a sojer!"

I hung to his neck, an' I axed him to stay,

Ye might as well ax for the night to be day;

But wringin' his neck from me, shoutin' "Hooray!"

Says he "Whoo! I'll go for a sojer!"

I set the dog afther him, thought that he'd stick

In the tail of his coat, he was up to the thrick;

For he turned on his heel, an' he skelped him a lick,

Of the stick, "I am off for a sojer!"

"O whisht! arrah there, look he's comin'!" she cried,

As far in the distance, her Jack she espied,

With Corporal Quirk on the march by his side,

He's comin' back home with a sojer.

When Johnnie came near enough to her to spake,

"O Johnnie Avourneen!" said she, "did ye take

The shillin'?" "No faith, for I'm too wide awake,

I only wint off for a sojer."