"I AM A REBEL SOLDIER"

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

For the best effect, please be sure to enjoy watching, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, my homemade amateur video recording of ME (!), performing, "I AM A REBEL SOLDIER", as I accompany myself by strumming simple chords on my Yamaha G-130A classical guitar.

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"I AM A REBEL SOLDIER"

Oh, Polly! Oh, Polly!
It's for your sake alone,
I left my old father,
My country, and my home.
I left my old mother
To weep and to mourn.
I am a Rebel soldier
And far from my home!

There's grapeshot and muskets
And cannon thunder loud.
Many's the mangled body,
A blanket for a shroud.
Many's the mangled body
Left on the fields alone.
I am a Rebel soldier
And far from my home!

Here's a good ol' cup of brandy
And I've a glass of wine.
You drink to your true love,
And I will drink to mine.
You can drink to your true love
And I'll lament and mourn.
I am a Rebel soldier
And far from my home!

I'll eat when I'm hungry
And drink when I'm dry.
If the Yankees don't kill me,
I'll live till I die,
If the Yankees don't kill me
And cause me to mourn.
I am a Rebel soldier
And far from my home!

I'll build me a castle
On some green mountain high,
Where I can see Polly
As she comes passing by,
Where I can see Polly
And help her to mourn.
I am a Rebel soldier
And far from my home! 

Andrew Martin Chandler and Silas Chandler

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Recorded in Washington, D.C., at the Armed Forces Retirement Home, on Monday 26 October 2009.

Thank you. 

John Robert Mallernee 

Armed Forces Retirement Home 

Washington, D.C.  20011

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