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Lyr Req: Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier

17 Feb 97 - 04:47 PM (#2317)
Subject: Johnney Has Gone for a Soldier
From:

I'm looking for the lyrics to "Johnney Has Gone for A Soldier" This is civil war in origina (at least as far as I know anyway). Ken Burns used it on the soundtrack for The Civil War he did for PBS. Ring a bell with anyone?

Thanks

Anne Christopherson AChrist@AOL.com

17 Feb 97 - 06:04 PM (#2320)
Subject: RE: Johnney Has Gone for a Soldier
From: ah827@rgfn.epcc.edu (Gene Graham)

IT's there under SHULE AGRA for whatever reason!

17 Feb 97 - 08:00 PM (#2322)
Subject: Lyr Add: GONE THE RAINBOW
From: Alison

Is also known as "Shule Aroon". Peter,Paul and Mary also did it as "Gone the Rainbow".

GONE THE RAINBOW
(Peter, Paul and Mary)

Here I sit on Buttermilk Hill
Who could blame me cry my fill
Every tear would turn a mill
Johnny's gone for a soldier.

I sold my flax, I sold my wheel,
To buy my love a sword of steel,
So it in battle he might wield,
Johnny's gone for a soldier.

Chorus: Shule, shule, shule aroo.
Shule a rack shack, shule a baba coo
When I saw my Sally Bally Beel
Come bibble in the bush -I -lor-ee

Oh my baby, oh my love
Gone the rainbow, gone the dove,
Your father was my only love,
Johnny's gone for a soldier.

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 11-Mar-02.

17 Feb 97 - 08:57 PM (#2323)
Subject: RE: Johnney Has Gone for a Soldier
From: catfeet@ici.net

It's also in the database in an earlier version as Shule aroon. Clannad did it on their album Clannad2. Catfeet

18 Nov 02 - 05:55 PM (#829331)
Subject: RE: Johnney Has Gone for a Soldier
From: GUEST,kaj.o@telia.com

James Taylor and Mark O'connor had recorded that song. Very fine version. The text is just changed a bit: "she" instead of "I".

18 Nov 02 - 05:59 PM (#829333)
Subject: RE: Johnney Has Gone for a Soldier
From: dick greenhaus

Buttermilk Hill version dates back to American Revolution. Shule Agra is older.

18 Nov 02 - 06:42 PM (#829366)
Subject: RE: Johnney Has Gone for a Soldier
From: GUEST,Q

What evidence is there for the existence of the Buttermilk Hill version at the time of the American Revolution?

18 Nov 02 - 07:18 PM (#829395)
Subject: RE: Johnney Has Gone for a Soldier
From: Noreen

Read the other threads (links above), Q, for the assembled knowledge of this community.

18 Nov 02 - 07:20 PM (#829396)
Subject: RE: Johnney Has Gone for a Soldier
From: GUEST,Q

I have. The question stands.

27 May 04 - 09:18 PM (#1195529)
Subject: RE: Johnney Has Gone for a Soldier
From: GUEST,somebody

hey thenk you soooooo much for the buttermilk hill version. i am an 11-year-old and i am in a traveling choir and the 8th graders in my group did that version and i wanted to know the words! thank you sooooooooooooooo much!