The Poetical Works of Robert Burns/O why the Deuce
O WHY THE DEUCE.
EXTEMPORE. APRIL 1782.
O why the deuce should I repine,And be an ill foreboder?I'm twenty-three, and five feet nine—I'll go and be a sodger.
I gat some gear wi' meikle care,I held it weel thegither;But now it's gain and something mair,I'll go and be a sodger.