Soldier's Joy

Written by: [Traditional]
Language: English
Comments: Old-Time fiddle and dance tune. Predominantly recorded as an instrumental but can have lyrics such as "I am my mama's darling boy...." "Grasshopper sitting on a sweet potato vine...." "Fifteen cents for the morphine, 25 cents for the beer/Fifteen cents for the morphine, gonna take me away from here"

Gid Tanner's 1929 recording has these lyrics - “Chicken in the bread tray scratchin' out dough, Granny will your dog bite? No, child, no. Ladies to the center and gents to the bar, Hold on you don't go too far.”
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Soldier's Joy written by [Traditional] English

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Medley of Old Time Dance Tunes [Soldier's Joy - Shoot That Turkey Buzzard - When You Go A-Courtin'	Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters (The Hill Billies [US])	1929	Medley
Soldier's Joy	Gid Tanner and His Skillet-Lickers with Riley Puckett and Clayton McMichen	April 1930
Soldier's Joy	The Charles River Valley Boys	1962
Soldier's Joy	The Scragg Family	1973
Soldier's Joy	The Muskrats	1976	Unverified
Life's Railway to Heaven - Soldier's Joy	Gambetta & Crary	2001	Medley
Soldier's Joy	The Tallboys	2003
Soldier's Joy	Adrienne Young & Little Sadie	February 24, 2004
Soldier's Joy	ShoreGrass	November 27, 2005	Live
Soldier's Joy	The Wayfarers	July 25, 2015

Soldier's Joy written by [Traditional] instrumental

	Title	Performer	Release date	Info
i	Soldiers' Joy	Fiddlin' John Carson and His Virginia Reelers	December 1925
i	Soldiers' Joy	North Carolina Hawaiians	1928
i	Medley of Old-Time Dance Tunes - Part I (Husking Bee - Old Molly Hare - Wild Horse - Soldier's Joy)	Crockett Family Mountaineers	May 1929	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy - Speed the Plough	Charlie Herald and His Round-Up Rangers	1933	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy - Arkansas Traveler - Mississippi Sawyer	Clayton McMichen	September 1939	Medley Vocalise version
i	Soldier's Joy	Cliffie Stone's Band	March 1947
i	Soldiers' Joy	Don Messer and His Islanders	1947
i	Soldier's Joy	Fiddlin' Red Herron	April 16, 1951
i	Soldiers Joy	Tommy Jackson	February 1952
i	Soldiers Joy	Buddy Durham	1961
i	Soldier's Joy	Crook Brothers	1962
i	Soldier's Joy	Glen Smith	1962
i	Soldier's Joy	Howie Mitchell	1963
i	Soldier's Joy	Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson	1963	Live
i	Soldier's Joy	The New Lost City Ramblers	November 1964
i	Soldier's Joy	Hobart Smith	1964
i	Soldier's Joy	Benji Aronoff	1965
i	Soldier's Joy	Wade Ward and Glen Smith	1967
i	Soldier's Joy	The Camp Creek Boys	1967
i	Soldier's Joy	Smiley Bates	1969
i	Soldier's Joy	The Simmons Family	1970
i	Soldier's Joy	Curly Ray Cline	February 1971
i	Soldier's Joy	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	October 2, 1972
i	Soldier's Joy	Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys	November 1973	Live
i	Soldier's Joy	The Bergerfolk	1973
i	Soldiers Joy	The Pine River Boys	1973
i	Soldier's Joy	Jay Round and Friends	1974
i	Soldier's Joy	Jay Belt	1974
i	Soldier's Joy	Tony Trischka	1975
i	New Soldier's Joy	The Kentucky Colonels [US2]	1976	Live
i	Soldiers Joy	Clark Kessinger	1976
i	Soldiers Joy	Mike Lilly and Wendy Miller	1976
i	Soldier's Joy	Tommy Jarrell	1976
i	Soldier's Joy	Thomas Hal [Tommy] Hunter	1976
i	Soldier's Joy - Black Mountain Rag	The White Brothers (The New Kentucky Colonels)	1976	Medley Live
i	Soldier's Joy	The Stonemans	1977
i	Soldier's Joy	Mick Larie	1977
i	Soldiers Joy	James Last	1977	Unverified
i	Soldier's Joy	Kevin Roth	1977	Unverified
i	Soldier's Joy	Andrew F. Boarman	1978
i	Traditional Medley II - St. Anne's Reel, Soldier's Joy	Fred Meyer	1978	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	Bill Knopf	1979
i	Soldiers Joy	Alan Munde	November 1980
i	Soldier's Joy	Buddy Spicher & Benny Martin	1980
i	Soldier's Joy - Arkansas Traveller	Easy Street Stringband	1980	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	Byard Ray	1981
i	Soldier's Joy	Marty Stuart	July 1982
i	Arkansas Traveler - Soldier's Joy	The Bluegrass Band	1982	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	Geoff Stelling and The Hard Times Bluegrass Band	1983
i	Soldier's Joy	Albert Hash & The Whitetop Mountain Band	1983
i	Soldier's Joy - Barlow's Knife	Tony Elman	1984	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	Edden Hammons	1984	Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Soldier's Joy	Cullen Galyean - Bobby Harrison	1984
i	Soldier's Joy	Bobby Horton	September 25, 1988
i	Soldier's Joy	The Rice Brothers	1989
i	Soldier's Sorrow - Soldier's Joy	Steve Kaufman	1990
i	Soldier's Joy	Clarence White and Doc Watson	November 1991	Live Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Old-Time Medley (Soldiers Joy - Mississippi Sawyer - Arkansas Traveler)	David Holt	1991	Medley
i	Two Step Medley: Cotton Eyed Joe - Deck the Halls - Buffalo Gals - Soldier's Joy - The Girl I Left …	Michael Martin Murphey	1991	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	Cathy Fink	1992
i	Soldier's Joy	Jeff Murray	1992
i	Soldier's Joy	Wayne Erbsen	1992
i	Soldier's Joy	Tommy Jarrell & Fred Cockerham	1992
i	Liberty - Soldier's Joy	Craig Duncan	1992	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	Blaine Sprouse	1992
i	Soldier's Joy	Cyril Stinnett	1992
i	Soldier's Joy	Bill Monroe & Doc Watson	October 8, 1993	Released more than 10 years after its recording Live
i	Soldier's Joy	Fletcher Bright	1993
i	Soldier's Joy	Joel Mabus	1993
i	Soldier's Joy	Rick Thum	1994
i	Sally in the Garden - The Spotted Pony - Soldier's Joy	Mark Schatz	May 16, 1995	Medley
i	Soldiers of Joy	Joe Craven	1996	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	Arthel Watson & David Grisman	August 19, 1997
i	Soldier's Joy	Mark O'Connor	1997
i	Over the Waterfall - Soldier's Joy	Bittersweet and Briers	1997	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	Blue Sky Boys	1997	Released more than 10 years after its recording Live
i	Soldier's Joy	Mike Scott [US]	October 1, 1999
i	Soldier's Joy - Ragtime Annie	Doc Watson and David Holt	1999	Live Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	Howard Marshall and John Williams	1999
i	Soldier's Joy	Bonnie Leigh	September 19, 2000
i	Soldier's Joy	Gary Waldrep	2000
i	Soldier's Joy	Bobby Osborne and Jesse McReynolds	May 8, 2001
i	Ida Red - Soldier's Joy	Ken Waldman	June 16, 2001	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	Ron Stewart	2001
i	Soldier's Joy	Mark Johnson [2], Emory Lester	2002
i	Soldier's Joy	Craig Duncan	2002
i	Soldier's Joy	James Price [US1]	February 25, 2003
i	Soldier's Joy	John Specker	February 2003
i	Soldier's Joy	Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson and Ricky Skaggs	July 15, 2003	Live
i	Soldier's Joy	Hank Schwartz	August 29, 2003
i	Soldier's Joy	Tony Rice	November 11, 2003
i	Soldier's Joy	Benton Flippen & The Smokey Valley Boys	2003
i	8th of January - Liberty	Jimmy Phillips	October 20, 2004	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	The Ebony Hillbillies	December 17, 2004
i	Soldiers Joy	Uncle Charlie Higgins, Wade Ward & Dale Poe	2004	Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Soldiers Joy	Thunder Creek	September 8, 2005	A cappella
i	Soldiers Joy	Possum Ridge String Band	2005
i	Soldier's Joy	Sidna & Fulton Myers	2005	Released more than 10 years after its recording A cappella
i	Turkey in the Straw - Soldier's Joy	FiddleSticks	2005	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	Matt Flinner	May 1, 2007
i	Soldier's Joy	Cedar Hill	October 8, 2007
i	Soldier's Joy	Matt Brown	2007
i	Arkansas Traveler	Jimmy Gaudreau & Moondi Klein	March 25, 2008	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	Professor Banjo	July 11, 2008
i	Soldier's Joy	Leroy Troy - Terry Eldridge - Larry Perkins	2008
i	Soldier's Joy	Scenic Roots	2008
i	Soldiers Joy	Shelby Eicher	March 14, 2009
i	Soldier's Joy	Darol Anger	May 1, 2009
i	Soldier's Joy - Mississippi Sawyer	Susquehanna Travellers	August 1, 2009	Medley
i	Soldiers Joy	Mary Z. Cox & Yazid	February 25, 2010
i	Soldier's Joy	Tina Chancey feat. Bruce Hutton & Chris Romaine	2010
i	Soldier's Joy	Lauren Sheehan	April 1, 2013
i	Soldier's Joy	Billy Strings - Don Julin	April 13, 2013
i	Soldier's Joy	Mike Scott - Adam Steffey - Bryan Sutton - Tim Stafford - Rob Ickes - Aubrey Haynie - Mike Compton …	May 21, 2013
i	Soldiers Joy	Back-Step	December 9, 2013
i	St. Anne's Reel - Angeline the Baker - Soldier's Joy	Fletcher Bright and Bill Evans	2013	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	Tom Fuller	September 28, 2015
i	Soldier's Joy	Albert Hash	October 1, 2015
i	Soldier' Joy - Chicken Reel	Ralph Whited	2015	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	Carlton Rawlings	2015
i	Soldier's Joy	Jim Hendricks [US1]	2015
i	Turkey in the Straw - Soldiers Joy	String Loaded	January 16, 2016	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy - Angeline the Baker	2nd South Carolina String Band	June 12, 2017	Medley
i	Soldiers Joy	Alvis Massengale	October 30, 2017
i	Soldier's Joy	Jacie Sites	December 13, 2017
i	Medley: Soldier's Joy / Arkansas Traveler	Davis Bradley	January 2, 2018	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	The Twaynes	March 2018	Unverified
i	Soldier's Joy - Ragtime Annie	Roland White and Friends	October 26, 2018	Medley
i	Soldier's Joy	The Old-Time Snake Milkers and Hoot and Holler	November 15, 2018
i	Ragtime Annie - Soldier's Joy	Arthel Watson & David Grisman	November 30, 2018	Medley Live Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Soldier's Joy	Jesse McReynolds & Friends	September 27, 2019

Soldier's Joy written by Jimmie Driftwood English

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Soldier's Joy	Jimmie Driftwood	May 1958	First recording on October 26, 1957 First release
Soldier's Joy	Hawkshaw Hawkins	June 1959
Soldier's Joy	Jerry Reed	1959
Soldier's Joy	The Holy Modal Rounders	1967
Soldier's Joy	Mareld [SE1]	1978
Soldier's Joy	The Deighton Family	1990
Soldier's Joy	Laura Veirs	November 7, 2011

Soldier's Joy, 1864 written by Shawn Camp, Guy Clark English

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Soldier's Joy, 1864	Guy Clark	September 17, 2002	First release

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