JEANNETTE AND JEANNOT
The Conscript's Departure
Charles W. Glover, music; Charles Jeffreys, lyrics

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You are going faw away, far away from poor Jeannette,
There is no one left to love me now, and you, too, may forget
But my heart will be with you, wherever you may go,
Can you look me in the face and say the same Jeannot?

When I wear the jacket red and the beautiful cockade,
Oh I fear that you'll forget all the promises you made;
With a gun upon your shoulder and your bayonet by your side.
You'll be taking some fair lady and be making her your bride,
You'll be taking some fair lady and be making her your bride.
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Or, when glory leads the way, you'll be madly rushing on,
Never thinking if they will kill you that my happiness is gone;
If you win the day, perhaps a general you'll be,
Though I'm proud to think of that, what will become of me?

Oh if I were queen of France, or still better, pope of Rome,
I'd have no fighting men abroad, no weeping maids at home;
All the world should be at peace, or if kings must show their might,
Why let them who make the quarrels be the only men to fight.
Yes, let them who make the quarrels be the only men to fight.

C. 1840s. The earliest sheet music I have found is dated c. 1847, E. Ferret & Co., Philadelphia; 1848, Sidney (Australia), T. J. Grocott; and several printed in the U. S. dated 1850 (W. H. Eburne, etc.).
According to antiqbook.com, there are four interrelated songs with the common subtitle "Jeannette and Jeannot." Charles Jeffreys seems to have been the first publisher. Variously titled:
Jeannette's Song - The Conscript's Departure
Cheer Up My Own Jeannette
Jeannot's Answer - Cheer Up My Own Jeannette - The Soldier's Return
The Wedding of Jeannette and Jeannot - The Soldier's Wedding
A set was published by C. Jeffreys, c. 1850, in London, as "Songs of a Conscript," with engraved illustrations.

Charles Glover was musical director at Queen's Theatre, London.

The songs were popular in the U. S., and especially so during the Civil War. The first one has been printed in "Southern War Songs: Campfire, Patiotic and Sentimental," 1890, T. Richardson Co. A copy with three of the songs (lacks Wedding), titled "Cheer Up My Own Jeannette, sheet music, n. d., F. D. Benteen, Baltimore, is available at Levy Sheet Music:
https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/20531

A parody, "California As It Is," a Gold Miner's song, is printed in Dwyer and Lingenfelter.