Soldier's Joy

Soldier's Joyn - Hawkshaw Hawkins

Some continental soldier's on a bivouac

Were playin' stud poker in a mountain shack

But every vigilante through down his hands

When the Captain of the guard gave a sharp command

Oh Jimmy get your fiddle out rosin' up your bow

Johnny clean 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 dancin' tonight

The gall-durn redcoats are holdin' 'em tight

When we get there we'll show 'em how

But that ain't a doin' us no good now

Oh Jimmy get your fiddle out rosin' up your bow

Johnny turn your back 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 barefoot boys are beggin' to fight

We're gonna cross the Delaware River tonight

Oh Jimmy get your fiddle out rosin' up your bow

Johnny turn your back 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 an the Huns

And they captured ten thousand of the son of a guns

Oh Jimmy get your fiddle out rosin' up your bow

Johnny turn your back we're gonna have a show

Billy pass the jug around to Corporal Mccoy

We're gonna have a tune called Soldier's Joy

John Paul Jones in an old tin can

Scoured the ocean like a fightin' man

The British said Paul are you ready to strike

And Paul said I'm just beginning to fight

Oh Jimmy get your fiddle out rosin' up your bow

Johnny clean 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