X:1     %Music
T:The Deserter
B:Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs, Vol 2, p 127, No 232, ed Maud Karpeles , Oxford University Press, 1974
S:Mr Rapsey at Bridgwater, Somerset, 12 April 1906
Z:Cecil Sharp
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
M:3/4     %Meter
L:1/8     %
K:D
AA |d2 c2 (dB) |(AF) D2 (DF) | A2 (AG) E2 | D4 
w:O a-drink-ing a--drink--ing, a--drink-ing_ went I
FF |E2 E2 (EF) | G2 F2 E2 |A2 c2 B2 | A4
w:When a re-cruit-ing_ ser-geant by chance came that way
A2 |DF A2 (AF) |GG F2 A2 |d2 f2 e2 | (d2 c2) 
w:He treat-ed me, he_ 'list-ed me till I did not know,_ 
A2 |d2 c2 B2 |(AG) D2 (DE) | A2 (AF) E2 | D4
w:And to the Queen's bar--racks they_ forced me_ to go
D2 |DF A2 F2 | GA F2 (Ac) |d2 f2 e2 | (d2 c2)
w:He treat-ed me, he 'list-ed me till_ I did not know,_ 
A2 |d2 c2 B2 |(AF) D2 (DF) |A2 (AG) E2 | D4|]
w:And to the Queen's bar--racks they_ forced me_ to go.