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Thread #7985 Message #1259794
Posted By: Jim Dixon
30-Aug-04 - 10:04 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Siul a Ruin
Subject: Lyr Add: JOHNNY IS GONE FOR A SOLDIER
Mrs. Murphy: I've checked The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music and The Library of Congress American Memory Collection – usually the best sources for sheet music – but I've found only lyrics, not notes. However, since I did find one version apparently not posted here before, I might as well post it for posterity: Copied from http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/amss:@field(DOCID+@lit(as201910)) : JOHNNY IS GONE FOR A SOLDIER I'll trace these gardens o'er and o'er, Meditate on each sweet flower, Thinking of each happy hour. Oh, Johnny is gone for a soldier. CHORUS: Shool, Shool, Shool, agrah! Time can only ease my woe, Since the lad of my heart from me did go. Oh, Johnny is gone for a soldier. Some say my love is gone to France, There his fortune to advance, And if I find him, it's but a chance. Oh, Johnny is gone for a soldier. I'll sell my frock. I'll sell my wheel. I'll by my love a sword of steel, So in the battle he may reel. Oh, Johnny is gone for a soldier. I wish I was on yonder hill. It's there I'd sit and cry my fill, So every tear may turn a mill. Oh, Johnny is gone for a soldier. I'll dye my dress. I'll dye it red. All over the world I'll beg my bread, So my parents may think me dead. Oh, Johnny is gone for a soldier.