Soldier's Joy

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 a sharp command

So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow

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

Billy pass the jug around to Coffer and McCoy

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

The girls in Boston are dancing tonight

And the goldurn redcoats are a-holdin' 'em tight

When we get there we will show them how

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

So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow

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

Billy pass the jug around to Coffer and 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 a-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 banjer up we're gonna have a show

Billy pass the jug around to Coffer and McCoy

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

Old Burgoyne in the wilderness

Got his army in an awful mess

The farmers got mad at the British and the huns

And captured ten thousand of them son-of-a-guns

So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow

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

Billy pass the jug around to Coffer and McCoy

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

General Washington and Roe Shambeaux

Drinking their wine in the campfire's glow

Big Ben Morgan came a-gallopin in

Said we got Cornwallace in the old cow pen

So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow

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

Billy pass the jug around to Coffer and 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

The redcoats cried and cursed your town

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

So Jimmy get your fiddle out and rosin up your bow

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

Billy pass the jug around to Coffer and McCoy

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

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