The gallant forty-twa.
[Dundee] : Poet's Box, 182 Overgate, Dundee,
[1880-1900?]
Dated from examination of text and style.
'Copies of this popular song can always be had at the Poet's Box, 182 Overgate, Dundee'.
First line reads: It's noo I am a sodger, and they ca' me Willie Brown, / I used to be a weaver lad, and lived in Maxweltown, / But noo I am enlisted, and to Perth I going awa' / To join that gallant regiment that's cau'd the gallant forty-twa.
In one column.
Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 42nd
Ballads, English