A happy banjo song about morphine
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- Опубликовано: 28 фев 2024
- Hey everyone! 🦋 Another Thursday another clawhammer banjo tune. This week’s song is Soldier’s Joy, which dates back as early as the 1760s.In spite of its upbeat tempo and catchy melody, the term "soldier's joy" has a much darker meaning than is portrayed by the tune. This term eventually came to refer to the combination of whiskey, beer, and morphine used by American Civil War soldiers to alleviate pain. This is one of the oldest and most widely distributed tunes in the English-speaking world. There are numerous renditions of this piece located throughout Library of Congress collections, many of which are online. Let’s take a brief tour of this American classic.
“Soldier’s Joy” appeared in late eighteenth-century sheet music and dance instruction manuals on both sides of the Atlantic. By the nineteenth century, it was published in numerous books of fiddle tunes, usually classified as a reel or country dance. Yet the lively tune could be played on just about any instrument, as the piano score below, published in Boston in 1885, illustrates.
Printed publications can be used as evidence of the tune’s age and popularity, but most musicians who played it and dancers who danced to it did not learn the tune from a printed page. They learned it by hearing it. Some heard it at dances in their communities; some heard it at home, played by a family member. Others may have heard it played by Army bands during wartime, to lift the spirits of troops in camp or as they marched to battle.
I am singing a bluegrass version of the lyrics but the tune goes:
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 (3×)
Sing you a song called the soldier's joy
Grasshopper sitting on a sweet potato vine (3×)
Along come a chicken and he's say "you're mine"
I'm gonna get you there don't you want to go? (3×)
All for the soldier's joy
Chicken in a bread pan scratching that dough
Granny does your dog bite no child no
All for the soldier's joy
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I’m self conscious about my neighbors hearing Soldiers Joy every time I pick up my mandolin and Cripple Creek every time I pick up my banjo. I always enjoy hearing your take on the standards.
The new availability of the hypodermic needle and purified morphine produced a lot of addicted veterans from the civil war. Even though awareness of the addictive potential grew after the war, veterans were a politically-powerful group, so that no restrictions on its sale or use were passed for almost 50 years (1914). Nearly all the civil war veterans had died by then.
I love learning the history behind these standard songs. Excellent playing, as always.
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Look up Guy Clark Soldier's Joy 1864. I learned it from a friend so I learned a simpler version. Tonight is the first time I actually heard Guy Clark do it. The first time I heard it was many years ago at the Alaska Folk Festival in Juneau Alaska. A great festival A week long Contra dances ever night. Housing can be hard to find.
Nice work Talise. You sure know how to drive a song and that's what makes people dance. Thanks for the background info too.😄
Always love making people boogie! And of course, I tirelessly copy pasted it off of wikipedia 🐵
Amazing (:
Thanks!!😋🌻
Sounding great Talise!
Thanks for always tuning in ☺
@@talisetunes Thank you for sharing your talent with us.
sooo good :) great channel and sharing with my best friend who is learning banjo
Best of luck to your friend! Let them know that there are some incredible resources here on RUclips and to reach out if they need channel suggestions. I learned to play the instrument on RUclips and there is a great community
With all the craziness going on on my side the border it is so wonderful to escape to your banjo and phoebe's banjo music. Thank you. so much appreciated. Usually when I sing to soldier's Joy it's the Soldier's Joy 1864 version I like ending on the minor.
I'd love to listen to that version! I believe this one is the 'Georgia Style' arrangement. And i'm happy that you can find some peace in music 💗 And Phoebe is so wonderful and one-of-a-kind
totally beautiful, fluid, vivid🌻🌻🌞🌞
Thank you!☺🍄
i like your playing and i wanna steal your hat!
I crocheted it using some of my hand spun yarn and actually sell pieces sometimes! :)
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YT recommanded this for me and this is a great gift ! Thank you for sharing your talent with us ! Cheers from France !
That as usual Talise, was mighty fine. And i love your delving into the history of these songs. Great work.
I really love the Banjo work on this song!
This one was so fun to play!
:) It looked like it!@@talisetunes
Very nice job 👏👏🪕🪕
Thank you!
Love the banjo music and your voice so much. So beautiful and peaceful. All the best for you from Germany
Thank you so much!💗
great content, thanks for the history and the beautiful recording!
Im not a soldier but Im farmiliar with that lovely combination. Beautiful song!
you got one out of two. you're doing great. and thank you!
i adore the way you play banjo 🥹
Of course it's happy, it's morphine!
happiest fiddlers ever
Amazing!🦆
Good song.
Ha! I knew it was Soldier's Joy!
Gimme some of that Soldier’s Joy, you know what I mean’
I don’t want to hurt no more my leg is turnin’ green
Twenty-five cents for whiskey, twenty-five cents for beer
Twenty-five cents for morphine, get me out of here
Gimme some of that Soldier’s Joy, you know what I mean’
I don’t want to hurt no more my leg is turnin’ green
What brand is your capo? Thanks for the tunes :)
I just borrowed a guitar one for this tune, but I typically use a banjo capo I got at a music store!
@@talisetunes oh I didn't know guitar one would work! I couldn't figure how to tune the drone string after I put the capo on.
@@francismeowgannou5322 There are 5th string capos you can use instead of retuning the 5th string. You can also use a modified Bic pen cap as a cheap 5th string capo. Or some people have spikes on the fretboard to capo the 5th string.
@@runrig97 thanks for the tips! I was looking into 5th string capo but it was out of my budget. So I love the pen cap idea
Do a mushroom one.