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"Soldier of Love" is a 1988 song by American singer Donny Osmond, which became his comeback hit. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It first was a Top 30 hit in the UK in 1988 and "Soldier of Love" reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1989 , [ 6 ] behind Michael Damian 's " Rock On ", becoming his sixth and last top-10 hit.
"Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)," also known as "Soldiers of Love," [2] is a 1962 song written by Buzz Cason and Tony Moon [3] It was originally recorded by soul artist Arthur Alexander and released as a B-side of the single "Where Have You Been (All My Life)", which reached #58 in the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1962.
(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 ...
"Soldier of Love" (Sade song), the lead single by Sade from the album Soldier of Love "Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)", 1962 song originally by Arthur Alexander, covered by The Beatles, Marshall Crenshaw and Pearl Jam "Soldier of Love", song by Brant Bjork and the Low Desert Punk Band from their 2014 album Black Power Flower "Soldiers of ...
The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie (Roud # 545) is a Scottish folk song about a thwarted romance between a soldier and a woman. Like many folk songs, the authorship is unattributed, there is no strict version of the lyrics, and it is often referred to by its opening line "There once was a troop o' Irish dragoons".
Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield. The tune is a variation of an earlier bugle call known as the "Scott Tattoo", which was used in the U.S. from 1835 until 1860.[8] [9] It was arranged in its present form by the Union Army Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield, a Medal of Honor recipient. [2]
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The song makes use of a number of metaphors, most prominently the song's title "Down Among the Dead Men". "Dead men" or "dead soldiers" is a term for empty bottles and the expression "to lie down among the dead men" means to get so drunk as to slip from one's chair and land under the table where the empty bottles have been discarded. [4]