1. Twenty-five cents for whiskey, twenty-five cents for beer,
Twenty-five cents for morphine. Get me out of here.

CHORUS: I'm my momma's pride and joy. (3X)
Sing you a song called the soldier's joy.

2. Grasshopper sitting on a sweet potato vine. (3X)
Along come a chicken and he's say "You're mine."

3. I'm gonna get you there. Don't you want to go? (3X)
All for the soldier's joy.

4. Chicken in a bread pan scratching that dough.
Granny does your dog bite? No, child, no.
Daddy cut his pecker off a long time ago,
All for the soldier's joy.