I'll Be a Sergeant  

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Comments This Civil War ancestor of the Second World War British marching song, "I've Got Six-Pence," must have a history that goes back to the earliest "common soldier" armies of England. "I'll Be a Sergeant" is credited to an unknown H.A.W. in this Civil War version, but it is quite apparently a reworking of an older song.

Songs of the Civil War, p.173.