Soldier's Joy-Laura Veirs

[ti:Soldier's Joy] [ar:Laura Veirs] [al:Tumble Bee] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Soldier's Joy - Laura Veirs [00:06.26]Continental soldiers on a bivouac [00:07.75] [00:08.44]Were playin' stud poker in a mountain shack [00:11.07]Every vigilante laid down his hand [00:13.26]When the captain of the guard gave a sharp command [00:15.82]So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow [00:17.90]Sally tune your banjer up we're gonna have a show [00:20.65]Billy pass the jug around to Coffer and McCoy [00:22.96]We're gonna have a tune called Soldier's Joy [00:25.46] [00:27.96]The girls in Boston are dancing tonight [00:30.21]And the goldurn redcoats are a-holdin' 'em tight [00:32.59]When we get there we will show them how [00:35.09]But that ain't a-doin' us no good now [00:37.46]So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow [00:40.09]Sally tune your banjer up we're gonna have a show [00:42.46]Billy pass the jug around to Coffer and McCoy [00:44.78]We're gonna have a tune called Soldier's Joy [00:46.93] [00:49.87]There goes General Washington [00:51.50] [00:52.06]He's got his horse in a sweeping run [00:54.44]The barefoot boys are a-beggin' to fight [00:56.87]We're gonna cross the Delaware river tonight [00:59.25]So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow [01:02.06]Sally tune your banjer up we're gonna have a show [01:04.31]Billy pass the jug around to Coffer and McCoy [01:06.63]We're gonna have a tune called Soldier's Joy [01:08.75] [01:11.63]Old Burgoyne in the wilderness [01:13.87]Got his army in an awful mess [01:16.31]The farmers got mad at the British and the huns [01:18.98]And captured ten thousand of them son-of-a-guns [01:21.06]So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow [01:23.62]Sally tune your banjer up we're gonna have a show [01:25.99]Billy pass the jug around to Coffer and McCoy [01:28.44]We're gonna have a tune called Soldier's Joy [01:30.56] [01:55.34]General Washington and Roe Shambeaux [01:57.21]Drinking their wine in the campfire's glow [01:59.89]Big Ben Morgan came a-gallopin in [02:02.26]Said we got Cornwallace in the old cow pen [02:04.72]So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow [02:07.34]Sally tune your banjer up we're gonna have a show [02:09.65]Billy pass the jug around to Coffer and McCoy [02:12.03]We're gonna have a tune called Soldier's Joy [02:14.12] [02:17.20]Wake up buddy have you heard the news [02:19.28]Grandma Britain's got an awful bruise [02:21.68]The redcoats cried and cursed your town [02:24.06]While the band played "The World's Turned Upside Down" [02:26.51]So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow [02:29.25]Sally tune your banjer up we're gonna have a show [02:31.46]Billy pass the jug around to Coffer and McCoy [02:33.86]We're gonna have a tune called Soldier's Joy [02:36.23]We're gonna have a tune called Soldier's Joy