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The song was originally written in English as "A Soldier's Song". It was composed "early in 1910 or late in 1909", [n 1] with words by Peadar Kearney, and music by his childhood friend and neighbour Patrick Heeney, who had collaborated on songs since 1903. [4]
"Coming Home", a song written by Jake Hook, Nick Patrick and Jeff Chegwin and produced by Patrick for The Soldier's first album Coming Home The song's lyrics are a stirring wish and plead for Army personnel to come home safely, The song features a tin whistle, piano, bass, drum and full string section.
Soldier's Joy, performed by the North Carolina Hawaiians (1929). Soldier's Joy, performed by the Gunnel Hensmar (1951). "Soldier's Joy" is a fiddle tune, classified as a reel or country dance. [1] It is popular in the American fiddle canon, in which it is touted as "an American classic" [1] but traces its origin to Scottish fiddling traditions. [2]
ABBA's ABBA Gold describes the song as "bleak-yet-catchy". [4] Billboard notes its "simple yet ominous metaphors that envision impending nuclear holocaust".It goes on to explain: "the offbeat cadence of the drumming holds dark, somber verses and the sing-song quality of the chorus together", and concludes by saying "certainly very few groups can effectively handle a subject as serious as this ...
"Sgt. MacKenzie" is a lament written and sung by Joseph Kilna MacKenzie (1955-2009), [1] in memory of his great-grandfather who was killed in combat during World War I. It has been used in the 2002 movie We Were Soldiers and the ending scene of the 2012 film End of Watch.
(Roud 489), also known as "Soldier John" and "Soldier, Soldier," is an American traditional folk song. [1] Fresno State University gives the earliest collected date as 1903 in America, and it was collected many times in Tennessee and North Carolina in the early 1900s. [2] It was printed in "Games and Songs of American Children" by William Wells ...
The song is anti-war but pro soldier, ... "Achy Breaky Heart," but it has significantly more heart and heartbreak conveyed in its lyrics, which honor the military, especially the fallen.
The song has a slow simple melody, reflecting a soldier's march, and is deliberately repetitive, echoing and telling of the daily grind of hard labour in harsh conditions. It was popular with German refugees in London in the 1930s and was used as a marching song by the German volunteers of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War ...