{"id":245,"date":"2021-06-17T11:40:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/claudemckay\/?post_type=chapter&p=245"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:02:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:02:39","slug":"a-recruit-on-the-corpy","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/chapter\/a-recruit-on-the-corpy\/","title":{"raw":"A Recruit on the Corpy","rendered":"A Recruit on the Corpy"},"content":{"raw":"ME an' de corpy drink we rum,\r\nAn' corpy[footnote]Corpy: corporal[\/footnote] larn me how fe bum ;\r\nLast night me gie 'm de last-last tup,\r\nYet now him come an' bring me up.\r\n\r\nHe'll carry me 'fo' officer,\r\nAn' rake up' t'ings fe charge me for ;\r\nAn' all because dese couple days\r\nMe couldn' gie 'm de usual raise.\r\n\r\nLast night, when it come to roll-call,\r\nDis corpy couldn' 'ten' at all :\r\nWe didn' mek de S.M.[footnote]S.M.: Sergeant Major[\/footnote] see 'm,\r\nBut only put things 'traight fe him.\r\n\r\nAn' we, like big fools, be'n deh fret\r\nOber de corpy drunk to deaf :\r\nWe all treat him so very kin',\r\nAldough him ha' such dutty min'.\r\n\r\nWe tek him drunken off de car,\r\nWe tek him drunken out de bar,\r\nWe wake him drunken 'pon him guard,\r\nAn' yet we neber claim reward.\r\n\r\nAll bad contrary things me do,\r\nCorpy see me an' let me go ;\r\nBut 'causen me no ha' a tup,[footnote]tup: twopence of the old Jamaica coinage ; three halfpence of the new[\/footnote]\r\nFe not'in' 'tall him bring me up.","rendered":"

ME an’ de corpy drink we rum,
\nAn’ corpy[1]<\/sup><\/a> larn me how fe bum ;
\nLast night me gie ‘m de last-last tup,
\nYet now him come an’ bring me up.<\/p>\n

He’ll carry me ‘fo’ officer,
\nAn’ rake up’ t’ings fe charge me for ;
\nAn’ all because dese couple days
\nMe couldn’ gie ‘m de usual raise.<\/p>\n

Last night, when it come to roll-call,
\nDis corpy couldn’ ‘ten’ at all :
\nWe didn’ mek de S.M.[2]<\/sup><\/a> see ‘m,
\nBut only put things ‘traight fe him.<\/p>\n

An’ we, like big fools, be’n deh fret
\nOber de corpy drunk to deaf :
\nWe all treat him so very kin’,
\nAldough him ha’ such dutty min’.<\/p>\n

We tek him drunken off de car,
\nWe tek him drunken out de bar,
\nWe wake him drunken ‘pon him guard,
\nAn’ yet we neber claim reward.<\/p>\n

All bad contrary things me do,
\nCorpy see me an’ let me go ;
\nBut ’causen me no ha’ a tup,[3]<\/sup><\/a>
\nFe not’in’ ‘tall him bring me up.<\/p>\n

  1. Corpy: corporal ↵<\/a><\/li>
  2. S.M.: Sergeant Major ↵<\/a><\/li>
  3. tup: twopence of the old Jamaica coinage ; three halfpence of the new ↵<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":17,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-245","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":192,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/245\/revisions\/246"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/192"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/245\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}