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.