Prototyping/Soldier Soldier Will You Marry Me
Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me
Lyrics
Soldier, soldier, will you marry me With your musket, fife and drum? Oh how can I marry such a pretty little girl When I have no coat to put on? Off to the tailor she did go As fast as she could run She brought him back the finest that was there Now soldier, put it on Soldier, soldier, will you marry me With your musket, fife and drum? Oh how can I marry such a pretty little girl When I have no shoes to put on? Off to the cobbler she did go As fast as she could run She brought him back the finest that was there Now soldier, put them on Soldier, soldier, will you marry me With your musket, fife and drum? Oh how can I marry such a pretty little girl When I have no hat to put on? Off to the hatter she did go As fast as she could run She brought him back the finest that was there Now soldier, put it on Soldier, soldier, will you marry me With your musket, fife and drum? Oh how can I marry such a pretty little girl When I've a wife and child at home?
Links
- playlist
- Lyrics on mudcat.org
- Audio recordings in the public domain?
- contemporary response
- inevitable potential for connecting to shopping
Exercise
"Compress" the lyrics by expressing as a Python script using a loop.
Python basics
- Variables
- Assignment
- Printing with variables (including the format method)
- For loop
- For loops, and the range function
Generate SVGs with Python
See Variable Television for an example of manipulating an SVG as an XML object in Python.