Laura Veirs - Soldier's Joy lyrics

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Continental soldiers on a bivouac

Were playin' stud poker in a mountain shack

Every vigilante laid down his hand

When the captain of the guard gave his sharp command

So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow

Sally tune your banjo up we're gonna have a show

Billy pass the jug around to Corporal McCoy

We're gonna have a tune called soldier's joy

The girls in Boston are dancing tonight

The gosh darn red-coats are holding 'em tight

When we get there we'll show them how

But that ain't doing us no good now

So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow

Sally tune your banjo up we're gonna have a show

Billy pass the jug around to Corporal McCoy

We're gonna have a tune called soldier's joy

There goes general Washington

He's got his horse in a sweeping run

The bare-foot boys are beggin' to fight

We're gonna cross the Delaware river tonight

So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow

Sally tune your banjo up we're gonna have a show

Billy pass the jug around to Corporal McCoy

We're gonna have a tune called soldier's joy

Old Burgoyne in the wilderness

Got his army in an awful mess

Farmers got mad at the British and the Huns

They captured ten thousand of the son-of-a-guns

So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow

Sally tune your banjo up we're gonna have a show

Billy pass the jug around to Corporal McCoy

We're gonna have a tune called soldier's joy

General Washington and Rose Shambeaux

Drinking their wine in the campfire's glow

Big Ben Morgan came galloping in

Said we got Cornwallace in the old crow pen

So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow

Sally tune your banjo up we're gonna have a show

Billy pass the jug around to Corporal McCoy

We're gonna have a tune called soldier's joy

Wake up buddy have you heard the news

Grandma Britain's got an awful bruise

Redcoats cried and cursed your town

While the band's played The World's Turned Upside Down

So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow

Sally tune your banjo up we're gonna have a show

Billy pass the jug around to Corporal McCoy

We're gonna have a tune called soldier's joy

We're gonna have a tune called soldier's joy