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HEN I first put this uniform on, I said, as I looked in the glass,
 * "It's one to a million
 * That any civilian

My figure and form will surpass. Gold lace has a charm for the fair, And I've plenty of that, and to spare,
 * While a lover's professions,
 * When uttered in Hessians,

Are eloquent everywhere!"
 * A fact that I counted upon,
 * When I first put this uniform on!