Chords for Jimmie Driftwood - Soldier's Joy

_ _ [A] _ [G] _ Some continental [C] soldiers on the [G] bivouac were playing stud poker [A] in a mountain shack
But every vigilante [C] threw down his hand [D] when the captain of the guard [G] gave the sharp commando
Jimmy did your feet loutin' rottin' up the boat Johnny tune your banjo up we're gonna have a show
Billy pass the jug around to Corporal [D] McCoy we're gonna have [G] a tune called Soldier's Joy
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_ [G] _ The girls in [C] Boston are dancing tonight [G] the gold and red coats are [A] holding them tight when we get [C] there
We will show them [D] how but that ain't [G] doing us no good now so Jimmy did your feet loutin' rottin' up the boat
Johnny tune the banjo [D] up we're gonna have a show [G] Billy pass the jug around to Corporal [D] McCoy
We're gonna have a [G] tune called Soldier's Joy _ _ _
There goes [C] General Washington
[G] He's got his horse in [D] a sweeping run [G] the barefooted boys [Am] are a-begging to fight
[D] We're gonna cross the [G] Delaware River tonight so Jimmy did your feet loutin' rottin' up the boat
Johnny tune the [A] banjo up we're gonna have a [G] show Billy pass the jug around to Corporal McCoy
We're gonna have a tune called Soldier's Joy
[A] _ _ [G] _ _ Old [B] Burgoyne in the wilderness [G] got his [A] army in an awful [G] mess
The farmers got [C] mad at the British and [D] Huns and captured ten [G] thousand of the son of a gun
So Jimmy did your feet loutin' rottin' up the boat Johnny tune the banjo [D] up we're gonna have a show
[G] Billy pass the jug around to Corporal McCoy [D] we're gonna have a tune [G] called Soldier's [A] Joy
_ [G] _ _ John Paul [C] Jones in an old tin [G] can scoured the ocean like [D] a fighting man
The British said Paul are [C] you ready to [D] strike?
Paul said I'm [G] just beginning to fight
So Jimmy did your feet loutin' rottin' up the boat Johnny tune the [D] banjo up we're gonna have a [G] show
Billy pass the jug around to Corporal [D] McCoy we're gonna have a [G] tune called Soldier's Joy _ _ _
General [B] Washington and [G] Rochambeau drinking their wine [D] in the campfires below
[G] Big Dan Morgan [C] came a-galloping in says we got [G] Cornwallis in the old cow pen
So Jimmy did your feet loutin' rottin' up the boat Johnny tune the [D] banjo up we're gonna have a [G] show
Billy pass the jug around to Corporal [D] McCoy we're gonna have a [G] tune called Soldier's Joy
[E] _ [G] _ _ Wake [Am] up buddy have you heard the news?
[G] Grandma Britain [D] got an awful bruise
[G] The Redcoats [C] cried and cursed your [D] town while a band played the [G] world's turned upside down
So Jimmy did your feet loutin' rottin' up the boat Johnny tune the banjo up we're gonna have a show
Billy pass the jug around to Corporal [A] McCoy we're gonna have [G] a tune called Soldier's Joy
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_ [G] _ A homemade fiddle and a mandolin an old banjo [D] and a [G] tambourine
A big dumb bully for the drummer [D] boy everybody [G] loves to hear the Soldier's Joy
So Jimmy did your feet loutin' rottin' up the boat Johnny tune the [D] banjo up we're gonna have a [G] show
Billy pass the jug around to Corporal [D] McCoy we're gonna have [G] a tune called Soldier's Joy
Gonna have a tune called Soldier's Joy