Steeleye Span - Female Drummer lyrics
[Steeleye Span - Female Drummer lyrics]
I was brought up in Yorkshire
And when I was sixteen
Oh, I ran away to London
And a soldier I became
With me fine cap and feather
Likewise me rattling drum
They learned me to play
Upon the rub-a-dub-a dum
With me gentle waist so slender
Me fingers long and small
And to play upon the rub-a-dub
The best of them all
And so many were the pranks that
I saw among the 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 me fine cap and feather
Likewise me rattling drum
They learned me to play
Upon the rub-a-dub-a dum
With me gentle waist so slender
Me fingers long and small
And to play upon the rub-a-dub
The best of them all
And they never found me secret
Out until this very hour
When they sent me off to London
To keep sentry at the Tower
When a young girl fell in love with me
And she found that I was a maid
She went up to me officer
Me secret she betrayed
With me fine cap and feather
Likewise me rattling drum
They learned me to play
Upon the rub-a-dub-a dum
With me gentle waist so slender
Me fingers long and small
And to play upon the rub-a-dub
The best of them all
He 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
No longer can I roam
With me fine cap and feather
Likewise me rattling drum
They learned me to play
Upon the rub-a-dub-a dum
With me gentle waist so slender
Me fingers long and small
And to play upon the rub-a-dub
The best of them all
And when I was sixteen
Oh, I ran away to London
And a soldier I became
With me fine cap and feather
Likewise me rattling drum
They learned me to play
Upon the rub-a-dub-a dum
With me gentle waist so slender
Me fingers long and small
And to play upon the rub-a-dub
The best of them all
And so many were the pranks that
I saw among the 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 me fine cap and feather
Likewise me rattling drum
They learned me to play
Upon the rub-a-dub-a dum
With me gentle waist so slender
Me fingers long and small
And to play upon the rub-a-dub
The best of them all
And they never found me secret
Out until this very hour
When they sent me off to London
To keep sentry at the Tower
When a young girl fell in love with me
And she found that I was a maid
She went up to me officer
Me secret she betrayed
With me fine cap and feather
Likewise me rattling drum
They learned me to play
Upon the rub-a-dub-a dum
With me gentle waist so slender
Me fingers long and small
And to play upon the rub-a-dub
The best of them all
He 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
No longer can I roam
With me fine cap and feather
Likewise me rattling drum
They learned me to play
Upon the rub-a-dub-a dum
With me gentle waist so slender
Me fingers long and small
And to play upon the rub-a-dub
The best of them all