Going for a Soldier, Jenny/The Lancashire Fusiliers

From Mainly Norfolk; Nic Jones sang this song with an additional chorus to a tune of his own on the Halliard’s album The Halliard : Jon Raven; originally released in 1968 and reissued on CD in 1997. Later, this recording was also included in the Halliard’s CD Broadside Songs. Dave Burland sang Lancashire Lads and Going for a Soldier, Jenny in 1996 on his CD Benchmark.
He commented in his liner notes: The Lancashire Lads and Going for a Soldier, Jenny were broadsides which were reworked by a group called The Halliard, which had in its members Dave Moran and Nic Jones. Nic wrote the tune to Going for a Soldier, Jenny and Dave wrote the tune to The Lancashire Lads.

Tune and chorus by Nic Jones;
And I’m off to fight for the army
As a Lancashire Fusilier
Rolling my musket in my arms
Instead of my Jenny dear

From Chaucer Fielder; The band (Nic Jones, Dave Moran and Nigel Paterson), in their notes on the song in the accompanying songbook [Broadside Songs] remark that it “originally appeared in Henderson’s Victorian street ballads”, but with the chorus modified to refer to Dave’s father’s association with the Lancashire Fusiliers.