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.