Lyr Req: Two Soldiers

Subject: Two Soldiers (Hazel and Alice, Rounder)
From:
Date: 27 May 97 - 06:47 PM

I would like the words to this ballad sung by Hazel and Alice on Rounder records. I believe it is either a rev- olutionary or civil war song.It starts something like this:

He was just a blue eyed Boston boy,
His eyes were filled with pain.
I'll do your bidding comrade mine,
If I ride back again.
But if you ride back and I am gone
You'll do as much for me.
My mother at home must hear the news,
So write to her tenderly.
She's waiting at home like a wedding Saint,
her fond eyes filled with woe.
Her heart will be broken when I am gone,
I'll see her soon I know.

There's alot more to the song and I would like to get all the words and any other information about it.

Subject: RE: Two Soldiers (Hazel and Alice, Rounder)
From:
Date: 25 Jun 97 - 06:17 PM

I am also looking for the lyrics to this song. I have most of the words as I can tell from listening to a CD by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, acoustic disc acd-2, 1991. They do a great job, accept the diction is a little lacking. Upon your request, I will E-mail the lyrics I have. I have most of them except for a few words in a couple of phrases. Maybe we can help each other out. My wife and I are teachers and are designing a teacher inservice to encourage them to use music in the class. We need the lyrics to TWO SOLDIERS to help in this endeavor. If you get the lyrics please contact us and share them.

Subject: RE: Two Soldiers (Hazel and Alice, Rounder)
From:
Date: 18 Aug 97 - 03:04 PM

I just posted a thread about this song then came upon your reply. Could you also e-mail me those lyrics? My mother's father sang this to her as a child and now she wants the lyrics. Thanks.

Subject: RE: Two Soldiers (Hazel and Alice, Rounder)
From: PattyG
Date: 20 Aug 97 - 07:31 PM

Heck. Got all excited. Thought this was about two soldiers hooked up with Hazel and Alice who were a couple of rounders.

Subject: Lyr Add: BOSTON BOY (from Tina Liza Jones)
From:
Date: 21 Aug 97 - 05:31 PM

I have a recording of Tina Liza Jones, of Floyd, VA, singing that song! I love it so much I wrote down her words. Here goes:

BOSTON BOY

He was just a blue eyed Boston boy. His voice was low with pain.
I'll do your bidding, comrade mine, if I ride back again.
But if you should ride and I am dead, would you do the same for me?
Mother, you know, must hear the news, so write to her tenderly.

She has lost all, one by one. Her husband and sons are gone.
I am all that she has left, but bravely she sent me on.
The other was tall, dark, handsome, and strong, but his faith in the world was slim.
He trusted only those he loved. They were all the world to him.

I have a girl in Boston town. Please write to her when I'm gone.
Tell her bravely of my death and tell her not to mourn.
Just then the order came to charge. For an instant hand touched hand.
They answered high and on they rode, that brave and devoted man.

[Break]

Straight was the course to the top of the hill, and the rebels they shot and shelled.
Black furls of death in the toiling ranks and garnered (?) them as they fell.
There soon was a horrible dying yell from heights they could not gauge,
And those whom doom and death had spared rode slowly down again.

But among the dead that were left on the hill was the boy with the curly hair.
The tall dark man who had bucked by his side lay dead beside him there.
There was none to write to the blue-eyed girl the words her lover had said.
And mother, you know, was awaiting her son. She'll only know he's dead.

Subject: RE: Two Soldiers (Hazel and Alice, Rounder)
From: harpgirl
Date: 20 Dec 98 - 11:02 PM

Two soldiers (Hazel and Alice, Rounder). Maybe Joe will see this and make here blue...how bout it joe? ( And he doesn't even need viagra, I bet!)

Say WHAT, Harpy????? -Joe

Subject: RE: Two Soldiers (Hazel and Alice, Rounder)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Dec 98 - 03:11 AM

Check out this thread
-Joe offer-

Subject: Lyr Add: TWO LITTLE BOYS ('expurgated' parody)
From: Pete M
Date: 21 Dec 98 - 05:32 AM

Hey Joe, I bet Hazel and Alice are the little "bleeps" in the Rolf Harris Dirty song book (expurgated version) as sung on ISIRTA.

Two little boys had two little bleeps.
Each had a wooden bleep.
Gaily they played each summer's day,
bleep both of course.
One little chap then had a mishap,
Broke off his bleep's head.
Wept for his bleep, then cried with joy
As his young playmate said:

"Did you think I would leave you crying
When there's room on my bleep for two?
Climb up here, Jack, and don't be crying.
I can go just as fast with two.
When we grow up, we'll both be bleepers,
And our bleeps will not be toys.
And I wonder if we'll remember
When we were two little bleeps?"

Long years had passed, bleep came so fast.
Bravely they bleeped away.
Bleeps bleeped loud, and in the mad crowd,
Bleeps and bleep lay.
Up goes a shout, a bleep dashes out,
Out from the bleeps so blue.
Bleep's away to where Joe lay.
Then came a voice he knew:

"Did you think I would leave you bleeping
When there's room on my bleep for two?
Climb up here, Joe. We'll soon be bleep'ing.
I can go just as fast with two.
Did you say, Joe, I'm all a-tremble?
Perhaps it's the bleep bleep bleep.
But I think it's that I remember
When we were two little bleep's.

"Do you think I would leave you bleeping?
There's room on my bleep for two.
Climb up here, Joe. We'll soon be bleeping.
Back to the bleeps so bleep.
Can you feel, Joe, I'm all a-tremble?
Perhaps it's the bleep bleep bleep.
But I think it's that I remember
When we were two little Bleeeeeeppps.

Not quite sure where the rounders fits in, perhaps they were doing something unmentionable with the bat!

Pete M