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Memoranda Memoraday Memoranda BS Olney Soap. Candles, tea Coaco Shells. 5th it was Earley next morning to the Wheel I Was Sent O merry man will. I Began to Repent Where they Learnt me to Jack and march with the next to the right & Left Wheel and then Up a Brest. 6th Ive Bin in Great Battles Ide Verry Good Luck at Vinager hill I Valued them not - Where the smoke was so thick and the Battle So hot that I Would not fire for fear of Being Shott 7th Here's A health to Oald Ireland to England & main O then weel go home and dig murfeys again O then weel go home and see madam again and sing fal de rittle L all turali Ladde i o -- Chorous. Benj'n S O Lattitude 1.. 48 South toward Providence
Transcription Notes:
I do not know the song lyrics at the end - they appear to be in his native language.
"Murphy" an Irish or white potato.
"Brest" a docking line.
"Tura lura lural
Tura lura lie
Tura lura lural
That's an Irish lullaby"