Soldier, Soldier Would You Marry Me

[@No1.OriginalTrilogyStarWarsFan]

Very good, you have a good singing voice wish I could sing.

[@raymondcrooke]

A very nice rendition of this classic song.

[@kristinebenson6625]

Thewonderful thing about folk songs is that there's many tunes possible!

[@garet300]

Beautiful song and you are great

[@takoma5]

Excellent version, fist time ive heard this song was by Jimmy Rodgers..Good job Girl!!...:)

[@KalinkaMalinkaful]

A great song. She is pretty too!

[@SpiritOfTheOpera]

Friend of mine taught this to a group at camp and they performed it at the afternoon assembly. But in a more "choiresque" feel to it. Your version is great though :)

[@MrShannonite]

Speaking as an Englishman, I love your version :)

[@tomte1978]

@Whiteberry77 Thanks for the information! Do you happen to remember the rhyme of the last lyric? I love "comeuppance" songs, such as Frankie & Johnny, and The Lonely Willow Tree, and would love to learn such an ending for this one!

[@Whiteberry77]

I first learned this song about 30 years ago when I was a counselor at a summer camp in California. The words and the tune was a little bit different, but still pretty much the same. In the version we learned the woman went to her Grandfather's chest at the end and pulled out a gun for the cunning soldier.

[@tomte1978]

Thank you for the insight into the history. The words I learned are the ones that Rusty McNeil uses in his "Colonial & Revolution Songbook." It is to be expected that folk songs evolve in lyrics over time.

[@lawomega1]

Indeed this an old English folk tune ,but beautifully played by our American cousin, this tune was imported by the English imigrants and quite rightly claimed it for their own (not that it matters because both our cultures are entwined) The words in the song are slightly different ,but they still sound good ,well done ! lawomega1

[@tomte1978]

Folk songs tend to have rather "mobile" lyrics, owing to the fact that they're mostly an oral tradition. Singers hear the song in one place and bring it to another, and often a song will retain popularity for decades, sometimes over a hundred years. Its a bit like the game of "telephone".

[@brianbarth6181]

You are the coolest! Still at the guitar?

[@brovsbro3865]

Dat gap in middle Geeez

[@tomte1978]

@mistystar98 -- Thank you for your comment. As is typical with folk songs, the words vary from version to version, sometimes significantly. The lyrics I used were featured in Keith & Rusty McNeil's "Colonial and Revolution Songs". I have a reasonably wide vocal range (from the D below middle C to the D above the staff), singing everything from 1st soprano to baritone. I tend to sing folk songs in a range that makes it easy for most people to sing along.

[@rtyankeedoodle]

This is rare old mountain dew music!

[@Nearlyprescient]

I was wondering why the lyrics to all of the arrangements I've been seeing were different. my choir did an arrangement of the American version a while ago. it might just be because this was how I learned it, but I like this version better, I have to admit

[@tomte1978]

@lawomega1 Thank you for your insight, and compliment!

[@teamagent9714]

YOU ARE GOOD come to are family campfire 🙂

[@allysonbishop3075]

i sang this song today

[@ChelseaPensioner-DJW]

This song was well before the Revolutionary War. Please would you lot in the US learn some history, apart from what's taught in school, or oral.

[@rgwholt]

not a revolutionary war song but an old traditional English folk song , here sung much to fast a tempo, and pitched to high

[@ellienuyen6070]

UR GOOD

[@Robertissimo]

How can the Americans have taken this song from the British if the Revolutionary Wars PRECEEDED the Napoleonic Wars??? oh dear...back to the class room!

[@wadefite]

wrong tune lassie

[@vondidi2002]

very nice, but a bit too long , no offence, but i like the version that i learned in my music class more

[@ChelseaPensioner-DJW]

I learnt this at what was called Primary School, many years ago as I'm 65yoa now. And it was a traditional warning song about Soldiers well before the American Revolution.

[@wildoscar416]

@cheyanne998 you need a dictionary

[@666madd]

ill ask your cousins uncles sisters son in laws niece .........................