[00:17.42]Was brought up in Yorkshire and when I was sixteen
[00:21.16]I ran away to London and a soldier I became
[00:25.00]Me white cap and feathers, likewise me rattling drum
[00:29.05]They learned me to play upon the rub-a-dub-a-dum
[00:33.31]With me gentle waist so slender and my fingers long and small
[00:37.50]Could play upon the rub-a-dub the best of them all
[00:41.39]
[00:45.39]And many a world of fights me boys
[00:47.24]I saw out in the field
[00:48.84]And boldly I defied them all
[00:51.08]And I refused to yield
[00:52.99]In buttoning up me trousers while often I did smile
[00:56.84]To think I lay with a thousand men and a maiden all the while
[01:01.10]With me white cap and feathers, likewise me rattling drum
[01:05.10]They learned me to play upon the rub-a-dub-a-dum
[01:09.20]With me gentle waist so slender and my fingers long and small
[01:13.16]Could play upon the rub-a-dub the best of them all
[01:16.87]
[01:32.83]They never found my secret out until this very hour
[01:36.24]They sent me up to London to be sentry at the Tower
[01:40.74]A lady fell in love with me found I was a maid
[01:44.70]She sent me to my officer and my secret she betrayed
[01:48.70]Well he unbuttoned my red tunic and he found out it was true
[01:52.97]‘It's a shame,' he said, ‘to lose a pretty drummer boy like you'
[01:57.26]And now I must return and go it all alone
[02:01.08]Along with my old comrades no longer can I roam
[02:04.64]
[02:05.13]With me white cap and feathers, likewise me rattling drum
[02:08.89]They learned me to play upon the rub-a-dub-a-dum
[02:13.15]With me gentle waist so slender and my fingers long and small
[02:16.90]Could play upon the rub-a-dub the best of them all
[02:21.25]With me fine cap and feathers, likewise me rattling drum
[02:25.00]They learned me to play upon the rub-a-dub-a-dum
[02:29.15]With me gentle waist so slender and my fingers long and small
[02:33.09]Could play upon the rub-a-dub the best of them all